Cutting IIoT Message Payloads by 90% with Compression over RabbitMQ in Spring Boot

A Spring Boot IIoT benchmark finds that compressing tiny telemetry messages one by one can actually make them larger.

Batching many telemetry records before gzip or Deflate compression cuts RabbitMQ payloads by roughly 90%.

The batched approach is also faster, showing that message count matters more than individual message size in high-volume device fleets.

For telemetry pipelines, pre-batch compression can reduce broker load, network traffic, and transfer costs significantly.