Cloud Storage of JSON Files

[kdk1616]

• Requires database (see notifications)
• Store users old JSON files from past years on server (so they don't get lost) Notifications #94
• Can be automatically imported when users logs in
  • Helps with getting full GPA Multi-year cumulative GPA #116

[notrodes]

Maybe a hotness-o-meter. That way infrequently accessed files can be serialized and zipped etc. . JSON is not an archival format

[psvenk]

Maybe a hotness-o-meter. That way infrequently accessed files can be serialized and zipped etc. . JSON is not an archival format

JSON is good enough for archival. My largest export file is only 214 kilobytes, but this is 14.8K gzipped and 12K after Zstandard, which is also faster than gzip. If we choose to compress with one of these algorithms, the time it takes to compress would be so small that there would be no point triaging files and we might as well compress every one of the JSON files stored on the server.