Understanding Compression: Data Compression for Modern Developers

by Colt McAnlis

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, games, and as little math as possible , authors Colt McAnlis and Aleks Haecky neatly explain the fundamentals. Learn how compressed files are better, cheaper, and faster to distribute and consume, and how they’ll give you a competitive edge.

239 pages, Paperback

Published August 30, 2016

Reviews

[Lilli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Totally helped me getting Huffman coding and many basics of data compression. Very digestable, where many other resources were not.