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 it’s only something you need to consider when you have Read more…
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. Jetty has a long story of staying cutting edge when Read more…
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 at showing how SPDY can greatly improve the latency of Read more…
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 to via SPDY and will be transparently proxied to a Read more…
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 is not the fastest (in fact it’s pretty slow). But Read more…
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 SPDY support in Jetty. No we’re taking this a step Read more…
Jos Dirksen has written a nice blog about Jetty-SPDY, thanks Jos ! In the upcoming Jetty 7.6.3 and 8.1.3 (due in the next days), the Jetty-SPDY module has been enhanced with support for prioritized streams and for SPDY push (although the latter only available via the pure SPDY API), and Read more…
There is a revolution quietly happening on the web and if you blink you might miss it. The revolution is in the speed and latency with which some browsers can load some web pages, and what used to take 100’s of ms is now often reduced to 10’s. The revolution Read more…
SPDY is Google’s protocol that is intended to improve user experience on the web, by reducing the latency of web pages, sometimes up to a factor of 3. Yes, three times faster. How does SPDY accomplish that ? SPDY reduces roundtrips with the server, reduces the HTTP verboseness by compressing Read more…