The HTTP/2 Spec (Interview)

Ilya Grigorik is back again — this time we’re talking about his true passion, internet plumbing, web performance, and the HTTP/2 spec. We cover everything around HTTP/2, the spec, HTTP/1 history, SPDY, binary framing layer, the semantics of HTTP/2, pipelining, multiplexing, header compression (HPACK), server push, TLS, “time to glass”, upgrading, adoption, support, and more.

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Featuring:

• Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) on Twitter
• Ilya Grigorik on GitHub
• The Changelog #55: Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY with Ilya Grigorik
• The Changelog #144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya GrigorikChangelog
• High Performance Browser Networking
• Chapter 12. HTTP/2 - High Performance Browser Networking
• HTTP/2 in one slide
• Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Is TLS Fast Yet?
• Implementations · http2/http2-spec Wiki
• h2o/h2o
• Nghttp2: HTTP/2 C Library - nghttp2.org
• Jetty - Servlet Engine and Http Server
• Website Performance Optimization Testing Course - Udacity
• SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web - The Chromium Projects
• Changelog Weekly - Issue #54
• Changelog Weekly - Issue #55
• Google’s Ilya Grigorik on HTTP 2.0

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