High Performance Browser Networking

\o/ ... a pleasant surprise to see this at the top of HN!

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After reading this, I suddenly understood so much more about what a web application actually is by appreciating it from the point of view of the browser.

Well written, clear, and enlightening. This is absolutely required reading for anyone doing web development (front and back).

This is a must-read for any web developer, frontend, or backend, or full-stack. It's short enough to be a fun read, but detailed enough to convey the most important browser networking facts.

If you can, buy a hard copy to keep as a reference. I have referred back to mine regularly (and will surely refer back to it in the future, likely next time I have to do something serious with websockets). It's fairly neatly organized by protocol, so if you just need a quick review of HTTP2 (for example), you can skip to that section and read it in isolation.

I highly, highly recommend.

The third book I force my Junior devs to read. This is as close to the definitive resource on topic you can get without digging into standards & specs.

"there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"

-- this book, about NAT

This is a terrific book. I purchased a subscription to Safari Books Online in large part due to wanting to read this. I was writing an app and was considering using Websockets, but realized I didn't know much about them and this book helped to lay out their mechanics. That, and so much more is in the book.

Love this book, but why is it making the rankings today? It was published like three years ago.

performance is not a feature; it is a requirement.