From 98e453211bd62c9b403eadb24cf9ec76543afb66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Werner <werner@sudox.nl>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:27:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: compress server response

---
 docker/requirements.txt | 1 +
 docker/src/app.py       | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docker/requirements.txt b/docker/requirements.txt
index 2854e19..1aecf07 100644
--- a/docker/requirements.txt
+++ b/docker/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Flask==2.0.2
+flask-compress==1.13
 joblib==1.1.0
 numpy==1.25.2
 pandas==1.3.5
diff --git a/docker/src/app.py b/docker/src/app.py
index e2a0731..88b90fe 100644
--- a/docker/src/app.py
+++ b/docker/src/app.py
@@ -10,11 +10,18 @@
 from flask import request
 from flask import jsonify as flask_jsonify
 from flask import Response
+from flask_compress import Compress
 
 # import numpy as np
 # import numpy.random as rand
 
 app = flask.Flask(__name__)
+
+# compress all server responses with gzip, deflate or brotli
+# for large responses this results in ±90% reduction (62.5MB -> 5.5MB) 
+# at a cost of ±15% response time (4.5s -> 5.2s)
+Compress(app)
+
 # !!! comment out for production !!!
 # app.config["DEBUG"] = True