Zstandard vs Brotli vs Gzip response compression in .NET 11
Zstandard is the right default for dynamic API responses in .NET 11, but not at the quality the ASP.NET Core provider ships with. Benchmarks on real JSON payloads showing why quality 1 beats the default quality 3 on both size and CPU, when Brotli still wins, and why Gzip survives only as a fallback.