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what are the current http/2 server options?

As far as I understand, none for production use. I see that nginx implements SPDY (HTTP2 is based on SPDY), but not yet HTTP2. They promise to bring HTTP2 by end of year though - http://nginx.com/blog/how-nginx-plans-to-support-http2/ .

You can also use an http/2 reverse proxy in front like nghttp2 or H2O.

https://nghttp2.org/ https://h2o.examp1e.net/

Caddy looks like a good choice.

https://caddyserver.com/

Undertow and Jetty are both Java options that support HTTP/2. I've been playing with both and it's still very rough around the edges (have to mess with bootpath to get ALPN to work), but it does work. F5 are supporting it now too.

From the presentation, Jetty's smart push feature sounds really cool, do you know if there's more information available on that feature?

Basically it caches requests per referrer so the next time a request is made, it can guess what subsequent requests will be made. Documentation is still sparse and a lot of it is carryover from their SPDY features.

There's a list of implementations here: https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/wiki/Implementations

According to the presentation, 9% of all HTTP on FF36 (for those who didn't disable this data collection) is HTTP/2. Surely there are people here using HTTP/2 in production: How are you serving HTTP/2 traffic?

The listing itself is somewhat muddled ... "Twitter" is an entry, linking to the Twitter homepage, presumably that's responsible for most of this traffic? I found https://github.com/twitter/netty-http2 and https://github.com/twitter/hpack on Twitter's GitHub.

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