Event stream compression and trimmed payloads

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JAN 30, 2026
ImprovementVideo Data

We enabled producer compression and trimmed the on-the-wire event payload across the Data pipeline.

  1. All event-stream producers across the Data pipeline now use compression.
  2. The events schema was pruned of fields that downstream consumers never read, reducing per-event size.
  3. An optimized event format is now used for analytical consumers; the legacy unbounded payload is no longer published.
  4. Result: lower internal storage usage and faster replay performance for backfills and recovery scenarios.