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

Monday, January 14, 2013

On Induced Latency and Loss

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The estimable Mark Allman has a new paper out in the latest ACM CCR dealing with data collection around buffering in the Internet. If you r...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Managing Bandwidth Priorities In Userspace via TCP RWIN Manipulation

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This post is a mixture of research and speculation. The speculative thinking is about how to manage priorities among a large number of paral...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Smarter Network Page Load for Firefox

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I just landed some interesting code for bug 792438 . It should be in the December 6th nightly, and If it sticks it will be part of Firefox 2...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

A brief note on pipelines for firefox

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A brief note on http pipeline status - you may have read on mozilla planet yesterday that Chrome has this technology enabled. That's not...
Monday, August 6, 2012

The Road to HTTP/2

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I have been working on HTTP/2.0 standardization efforts in the IETF . Lots has been going on lately, lots of things are still in flux, and ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Making Firefox Search Snappier

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The Firefox 15 development window just opened and I checked into inbound a cool feature that had been sitting in my queue for a little whil...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Welcome Jiten - Building a Networking Dashboard

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There are many awesome things about the Firefox networking layer. However realtime visibility into what its doing is not on that list. Tha...
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 ...
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