We have SPDY to SPDY and HTTP to SPDY proxy functionality implemented in Jetty for a while now. An important and very common use case however is a SPDY to HTTP proxy. Imagine a network architecture where network components like
Asynchronous Rest with Jetty-9
This blog is an update for jetty-9 of one published for Jetty 7 in 2008 as an example web application that uses Jetty asynchronous HTTP client and the asynchronoous servlets 3.0 API, to call an eBay restful web service. The
Jetty, SPDY, PHP and WordPress
Having discussed the business case for Jetty 9 and SPDY, this blog presents a simple tutorial for runing PHP web applications like WordPress on Jetty with SPDY. Get Jetty First you’ll need a distribution of Jetty, which you can download,
The Need For SPDY and why upgrade to Jetty 9?
So you are not Google! Your website is only taking a few 10’s or maybe 100’s of requests a second and your current server is handling it without a blip. So you think you don’t need a faster server and
Jetty 9.1 in Techempower benchmarks
Jetty 9.1.0 has entered round 8 of the Techempower’s Web Framework Benchmarks. These benchmarks are a comparison of over 80 framework & server stacks in a variety of load tests. I’m the first one to complain about unrealistic benchmarks when
Jetty, SPDY and HAProxy
The SPDY protocol will be the next web revolution. The HTTP-bis working group has been rechartered to use SPDY as the basis for HTTP 2.0, so network and server vendors are starting to update their offerings to include SPDY support.
SPDY Push Demo from JavaOne 2012
Simone Bordet and I spoke at JavaOne this year about the evolution of web protocol and how HTTP is being replaced by WebSocket (for new semantics) and by SPDY (for better efficiency). The demonstration of SPDY Push is particularly good
Fully functional SPDY-Proxy
We keep pushing our SPDY implementation and with the upcoming Jetty release we provide a fully functional SPDY proxy server out of the box. Simply by configuration you can setup Jetty to provide a SPDY connector where clients can connect
SPDY – non representative benchmark for plain http vs. spdy+push on webtide.com
I’ve done a quick run with the Page Benchmarker Extension on chromium to measure the difference between http and SPDY + push. Enabling benchmarks restricts chromium to SPDY draft 2 so we’ll run without flow control. Note that the website
SPDY – we push!
SPDY, Google’s web protocol, is gaining momentum. Intending to improve the user’s web experience it aims at severely reducing page load times. We’ve blogged about the protocol and jetty’s straight forward SPDY support already: Jetty-SPDY is joining the revolution! and