https://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-8-0-18-maintenance-release-is-generally-available/ https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/connection-compression-control.html#connection-compression-configuration
I like the zstd for protocol compression https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/
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