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rabbitmq-encoding verifiedWritten by the Hub

Compression of published messages

in the configuration this is a linerabbitmq-encoding: identity

Whether messages the engine publishes are compressed, and with what.

Values

Values
identity · gzip
Default
identity · taken from the build
applying
restart required
where it can be set
in the config file · with a startup flag · as an environment variable

In detail

Ships as identity, meaning no compression. Gzip trades processor time for bandwidth and broker memory, which pays off when message bodies travel to a broker on another machine and costs when everything is local — the case on a single-node install like ours.