Reorganizing website architecture for HTTP/2 and beyond
New performance bottlenecks become apparent as web browsers and servers start using HTTP/2. Kazuho Oku explains the issues, their mitigation, and how the developers of the HTTP protocol are trying to make the Web even faster, covering the reality of HTTP/2 prioritization, cache-aware server push, the impact of load balancers for HTTP/2, mobile optimization, and HTTP caching.
| Talk Title | Reorganizing website architecture for HTTP/2 and beyond |
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| Conference | Velocity |
| Conf Tag | Build resilient systems at scale |
| Location | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Date | November 7-9, 2016 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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The Web is becoming faster as more and more web browsers and servers adopt HTTP/2. But support for the new protocol is still rough cut, and new performance bottlenecks are becoming apparent as people start using HTTP/2. To give one example, server push in HTTP/2 is a promising feature but is hard to use in practice without the server knowing what the client has in its cache. To give another, due to the latency-sensitive nature of the protocol, a misconfigured load balancer becomes a major performance bottleneck. Kazuho Oku, the author of the H2O HTTP/2 server (often referred to as the most sophisticated implementation of the protocol) as well as the author of the cache digests for HTTP/2 Internet-Draft, explains the various issues discovered by the server-side and the client-side developers of the protocol and the solutions invented to address them. Kazuho also covers upcoming standards such as TLS 1.3 and QUIC and their impact.
