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

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

On the Application of STRINT to HTTP/2

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I participated for two days last week in the joint W3C/IETF (IAB) workshop on Strengthening the Internet against Pervasive Monitoring (aka S...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

SSL Everywhere for HTTP/2 - A New Hope

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Recently the IETF working group on HTTP met in Berlin, Germany and discussed the concept of mandatory to offer TLS for HTTP/2, offered by Ma...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Go Read "Reducing Web Latency - the Virtue of Gentle Aggression"

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One of the more interesting networking papers I've come across lately is Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression . It deta...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Internet Society Briefing Panel @ IETF 87

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This past week saw IETF 87, in Berlin Germany, come and go. As usual I met a number of interesting new folks, caught up with old acquaintanc...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

RTT - a lot more than time to first byte

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Lots of interesting stuff in this paper: Understanding the latency benefits of multi-cloud webservice deployments . One of the side angles...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it..

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Robert Koch's Masters Thesis about websockets security and adoption is linked . One interesting tidbit - he surveyed 15K free apps fr...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Firefox Nightly on WebPageTest

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Thanks to Google's amazing Pat Meenan, Firefox nightly has been added to webpagetest.org - just make sure to select the Dulles VA locati...
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 ...
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