https://www.bloodraven.in/tags/openobserve/ Recent content in Openobserve on Ishan Jain Hugo en-us Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bloodraven.in/writing/from-huffman-to-openobserve-why-your-10gb-log-file-fits-in-3gb/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bloodraven.in/writing/from-huffman-to-openobserve-why-your-10gb-log-file-fits-in-3gb/ <p>Every SRE has run <code>gzip</code> on a log file and watched 10GB collapse into 3GB. It feels like magic. It is not. It is a handful of very old, very simple ideas about redundancy, and once you understand them, the storage numbers behind modern observability tools stop looking like marketing and start looking like arithmetic.</p> <p>Let me walk from first principles up to how a tool like OpenObserve turns those principles into a 140x cost gap.</p>