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Summary
Adds gzip compression support to the Kafka producer. Users can now configure compression when creating or updating Kafka sinks to reduce network bandwidth and storage requirements.
I chose to only include gzip since other compression formats (snappy, lz4, zstd) require additional libraries to be installed. gzip works out of the box using Erlang's built-in zlib module.
Changes
Backend
Added compression field to KafkaSink schema with enum values: :none, :gzip
Default value is :none (no compression) for backward compatibility
Frontend
Added compression dropdown to Kafka sink configuration form for
NoneandGzipDocumentation
Updated docs/reference/sinks/kafka.mdx with compression configuration details
Tests
I ran the full test suite with the newly-added tests: