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The base64 encoded skymaps are making the alerts we send to GCN kafka too large for the default kafka payload limit (1MB, which I assume GCN is using). We don't see this with the avro alerts because the not-base64 encoded skymaps are smaller.
This MR gzips the skymap before base64 encoding it and decoding it to utf-8.