November 23, 2019

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Real-world experience with HTTP/2

Real-world experience with HTTP/2

Michael Gooding and Javier Garza share their experiences using HTTP/2 over the last 12 months, exploring case studies that demonstrate how performance can be improved while also addressing backward compatibility, using RUM data to review performance-related observations of customers after making the switch, and hands-on demos of HTTP/2 with server push and HTTP/2 + QUIC.
Talk Title Real-world experience with HTTP/2
Speakers Michael Gooding (Akamai), Javier Garza (Akamai Technologies)
Conference Velocity
Conf Tag Build resilient systems at scale
Location Santa Clara, California
Date June 21-23, 2016
URL Talk Page
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Michael Gooding and Javier Garza share their experiences using HTTP/2 over the last 12 months, exploring case studies that demonstrate how performance can be improved while also addressing backward compatibility, using RUM data to review performance-related observations of customers after making the switch, and hands-on demos of HTTP/2 with server push and HTTP/2 + QUIC. Topics include:

performance http/2
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