What is the preferred ring-gzip wrapper? https://github.com/bertrandk/ring-gzip or https://github.com/clj-commons/ring-gzip-middleware or even something else? Are there any "gotchas"?

Is there a strategy for making uberjars that don't include certain transitive dependencies? I have a provided dependency (javax.servlet-api), I've already separated it out as its own alias so I'm not directly pulling it in when I uberjar but I was just bitten by it being pulled in as a transitive dependency of one of my primary deps (ring-defaults). For now I've made it an exclusion of that dependency, but I wonder if there's a more general strategy for making sure that javax.servlet-api doesn't end up in my uberjar?