How we made our MMDB files a 33% smaller
The article, shared on Hacker News, outlines the steps taken to shrink the MaxMind DB (MMDB) files by roughly 33%, including modifications to the data layout and compression approach, and reports the resulting storage and load‑time improvements. The author also provides code snippets and performance metrics to illustrate the impact. Readers are encouraged to adapt the techniques for their own databases.