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SoftwareOctober 22, 2026, 17:55

ngx_mzstd moves zstd compression to NGINX thread pools

The Rust-based ngx_mzstd module compresses zstd responses on NGINX thread pools instead of the event loop. In tests, p99 latency for small requests stayed at 1.7–2.0 ms versus 4.2–198 ms with tokers/zstd-nginx-module, while throughput rose 2.2–15x.

ngx_mzstd moves zstd compression to NGINX thread pools
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