Worked on the restatedev/restate repository to enhance the Admin API by implementing transparent response compression, targeting improved performance and scalability for large payloads such as deployments and service listings. Used Rust and backend development skills to add support for gzip, brotli, and zstd compression algorithms, automatically serving compressed responses when clients include the appropriate Accept-Encoding header. Ensured backward compatibility by maintaining uncompressed responses for clients lacking this header. Leveraged the tower-http CompressionLayer to achieve reliable, low-overhead integration with minimal impact on the API surface. This work addressed bandwidth reduction and latency improvements in line with ongoing performance objectives.