Making the web faster with SPDY and HTTP/2

SPDY is a common sense protocol in many ways. It seems simple but it has quite a few wrinkles when implementing it properly.

As a way to learn Go I started a Go SPDY library[1] and to demo it also released a SPDY proxy and origin server [2].

At this point we're about to release a service in our startup to do streaming.

I'm looking for users who want to bang on this library and help shake more bugs to make it more and more solid. Interested? :)

[1] https://github.com/amahi/spdy [2] https://github.com/amahi/spdy-proxy

Tangential, but it's fun to see which sites are actually delivering you content over SPDY.

FF SPDY indicator: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/spdy-indicato...

Chrome SPDY indicator: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spdy-indicator/mpb...

In my little sphere of internet usage: Big sites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter appear to almost always use SPDY. HN uses SPDY. And very few other sites. (I think wikipedia is a surprising non-user, but I'm not a web guy, so what do I know.)

Looks like they also experiment with the QUIC protocol on their sites (on YouTube too) because there is a HTTP header called: Alternate-Protocol 443:quic in their requests. QUIC isn't enabled by default in Chrome but you can enable it in chrome://flags and then you can also check chrome://net-internals/#events to see if there are any "QUIC SESSION" when you load a page. Benchmark shows they still have to work on it: http://www.connectify.me/taking-google-quic-for-a-test-drive...

SPDY is a good idea in general, but the average web site shouldn't be expected to see the same gains that a Google property (which is tuned like a mofo and which is usually hosted entirely through Google-controlled domains) will:

http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/

HTTP's high-frequency back-and-forth shuffle is a good thing to eliminate, but most of the time, there are more serious bottlenecks somewhere else.

You can play with it easily enough in FF: set network.http.spdy.enabled to FALSE and see if Google News really seems any different to you as a human being.

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