Was reading the official spec for GIF image format

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Jul 04, 2022 • 1 min read


Was reading the official spec for GIF image format.

It is such a superbly written spec that it makes ZERO assumptions. In a snippet highlighted we can see that they specified that

GIF format makes no provision for error detection or correction; the input stream should be error-free.

Somethings that we take for granted, the official spec covers it so well.

What if someone creates an image format with error correction in-built. how cool would it be?

This is why I love reading papers and official specs. No better way of learning something in-depth.

Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses