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Real data and musings on the performance of networks, servers, protocols, and their related folks.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Twitter, SPDY, and Firefox

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Well - look at what this morning brings: some Twitter.com enabled SPDY goodness in my firefox nightly! (below) spdy is currently enabled in...
Monday, January 23, 2012

HTTP-WG Proposal to tackle HTTP/2.0

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Huzzah to Mark Nottingham , chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group. He proposes rechartering the group to "specify (sic) HTTP/2.0 an imp...
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Using SPDY for more responsive interfaces

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RST_STREAM turns out to be a feature of spdy that I under appreciated for a long time. The concept is simple enough - either end of the conn...
Sunday, January 1, 2012

A use case for SPDY header compression

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A use case for SPDY header compression: http://pix04.revsci.net/F09828/a4/0/0/0.js 380 bytes of gzipped javascript (550 uncompressed), sen...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

SPDY, Bufferbloat, HTTP, and Real-Time Networking

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Long router queue sizes on the web continue to be a hot networking topic - Jim Gettys has a long interview in ACM queue . Large unmanaged ...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Video of SPDY Talk at Codebits.eu

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Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be able to address the codebits.eu conference and share my thoughts on why SPDY is an important chang...
Friday, September 23, 2011

SPDY: What I Like About You.

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I've been working on implementing SPDY as an experiment in Firefox lately. We'll have to see how it plays out, but so far I really l...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Note to Self: The Web is Slow

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I've made a living dealing with fast networks and servers that run at really impressive transaction rates using all manner of nifty inte...
Monday, February 14, 2011

The Apex of Pipelines

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Every once in a while I'm still surprised at the potential upside of pipelines . I stumbled across a great example recently: Women In...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

HTTP Parallel Connections (Firefox edition!)

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Parallelism helps when It hides network idleness during TCP Handshakes though persistent connections help with this too. It hides network ...

Separating HTTP Connections from TCP Connections

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The firefox http connection implementation, and most others I have seen, binds the http connection and the tcp connection together 1 to 1 so...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

HTTP PSA: beware unpadded content-md5

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You don't see a lot of HTTP Content-MD5 response headers, but I just discovered some piece of code that generates unpadded base 64 versi...
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