Understanding Compression:: Data Compression for Modern Developers

by Colt McAnlis

All Indian Reprints of O'Reilly are printed in Grayscale. If you want to attract and retain users in the booming mobile services market, you need a quick-loading app that won’t churn through their data plans. The key is to compress multimedia and other data into smaller files, but finding the right method is tricky. This witty book helps you understand how data compression algorithms work—in theory and practice—so you can choose the best solution among all the available compression tools. With tables, diagrams, gamesand as little math as possible, authors Colt McAnlis and Aleks Haecky neatly explain the fundamentals. Learn how compressed files are better, cheaperand faster to distribute and consumeand how they’ll give you a competitive edge. All Indian Reprints of O'Reilly are printed in Grayscale. If you want to attract and retain users in the booming mobile services market, you need a quick-loading app that won’t churn through their data plans. The key is to compress multimedia and other data into smaller files, but finding the right method is tricky. This witty book helps you understand how data compression algorithms work—in theory and practice—so you can choose the best solution among all the available compression tools. With tables, diagrams, gamesand as little math as possible, authors Colt McAnlis and Aleks Haecky neatly explain the fundamentals. Learn how compressed files are better, cheaperand faster to distribute and consumeand how they’ll give you a competitive edge.

244 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2016