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You mean, like SPDY/HTTP2 ?

by ldng 7y ago

klodolph 7y ago
As far as I can tell, HTTP/2 is such a major improvement that no strong-arming is necessary. Speaking as a consumer of the web, as an individual who runs their own website, and at a developer working at a company with a major web presence. The web suffers a ton from the “red queen” rule in so many different ways anyway—you have to do a lot of work just to stay in the same place.
- ldng 7y ago
  But, is it really such an improvement ? Or is it just an improvement for Cloud provider that keep pushing the Kool-Aid ? I still see a lot of contradicting benchmark and, apart from some Google Apps, personnally, I have not seen a lot of sites actually really leveraging HTTP2 (including push). But maybe you did put and leverage HTTP2 on your own website ? At your company ? Did you use push ? Do you use it with CDN ?
  - klodolph 7y ago
    > But, is it really such an improvement? Yes, unequivocally. It’s amazing, even without push. The websites that use it are faster, and the development process for making apps or sites that load quickly is much more sane. You don’t have to resort to the kind of weird trickery that pervades HTTP/1 apps. > Or is it just an improvement for Cloud provider that keep pushing the Kool-Aid ? I don’t see how that makes any sense at all. Could you explain that? > But maybe you did put and leverage HTTP2 on your own website ? At your company ? Did you use push ? Do you use it with CDN ? From my parent comment, > Speaking as a consumer of the web, as an individual who runs their own website, and at a developer working at a company with a major web presence. My personal web site uses HTTP/2. It serves a combination of static pages and web apps. No push. HTTP/2 was almost zero effort to set up, and instantly improved performance. With HTTP/2, I’ve changed the way I develop web apps, for the better. My employer’s website uses every technique under the sun, including push and CDNs.
    - jefftk 7y ago
      > My employer’s website uses every technique under the sun, including push and CDNs. Are you actually seeing good results from push? I have seen many projects try to use it, but am not aware of any that have ended up keeping it. (Disclosure: I work at Google)
      - klodolph 7y ago
        > Are you actually seeing good results from push? Push isn’t worth it, from what I understand. I think that’s the conclusion at work.
      - ldng 7y ago
        Well, that is a shame, it was to me the main selling point that could eventually win me over.
      - deleted 7y ago
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      - collinmanderson 7y ago
        For comcenter.com I push CSS, except if the referrer is same origin. I _think_ it's working pretty well as far as I can tell.
        jefftk 7y ago
        If you were up for running an A/B test (diverted per-user, since cache state is sticky) and writing up the results publicly I'd love to see it!
    - ldng 7y ago
      >> Or is it just an improvement for Cloud provider that keep pushing the Kool-Aid ? > I don’t see how that makes any sense at all. Could you explain that? I've seen a few CDN having a page loading a grid of image in HTTP/1 at page load, and then load the same stuff with HTTP/2 on a button click. It indeed shows you a nice speed up. Except, when you block the first HTTP/1 load and start with loading with HTTP/2 first and flush cache between loads, the speedup vanishes. The test is disingenuous, it is not testing HTTP/2 but DNS cache velocity. So, those type of website makes me rather cautious. And the test, for the small scale workloads I work with, have not been very conclusive. Do you have serious articles on the matter to recommend ? Preferably not CDN provider trying to sell me there stuff.

You mean, like SPDY/HTTP2 ?

by ldng 7y ago

You mean, like SPDY/HTTP2 ?

As far as I can tell, HTTP/2 is such a major improvement that no strong-arming is necessary. Speaking as a consumer of the web, as an individual who runs their own website, and at a developer working at a company with a major web presence. The web suffers a ton from the “red queen” rule in so many different ways anyway—you have to do a lot of work just to stay in the same place.

ldng 7y ago
But, is it really such an improvement ? Or is it just an improvement for Cloud provider that keep pushing the Kool-Aid ? I still see a lot of contradicting benchmark and, apart from some Google Apps, personnally, I have not seen a lot of sites actually really leveraging HTTP2 (including push). But maybe you did put and leverage HTTP2 on your own website ? At your company ? Did you use push ? Do you use it with CDN ?
- klodolph 7y ago
  > But, is it really such an improvement? Yes, unequivocally. It’s amazing, even without push. The websites that use it are faster, and the development process for making apps or sites that load quickly is much more sane. You don’t have to resort to the kind of weird trickery that pervades HTTP/1 apps. > Or is it just an improvement for Cloud provider that keep pushing the Kool-Aid ? I don’t see how that makes any sense at all. Could you explain that? > But maybe you did put and leverage HTTP2 on your own website ? At your company ? Did you use push ? Do you use it with CDN ? From my parent comment, > Speaking as a consumer of the web, as an individual who runs their own website, and at a developer working at a company with a major web presence. My personal web site uses HTTP/2. It serves a combination of static pages and web apps. No push. HTTP/2 was almost zero effort to set up, and instantly improved performance. With HTTP/2, I’ve changed the way I develop web apps, for the better. My employer’s website uses every technique under the sun, including push and CDNs.
  - jefftk 7y ago
    > My employer’s website uses every technique under the sun, including push and CDNs. Are you actually seeing good results from push? I have seen many projects try to use it, but am not aware of any that have ended up keeping it. (Disclosure: I work at Google)
    - klodolph 7y ago
      > Are you actually seeing good results from push? Push isn’t worth it, from what I understand. I think that’s the conclusion at work.
    - ldng 7y ago
      Well, that is a shame, it was to me the main selling point that could eventually win me over.
    - deleted 7y ago
      [deleted]
    - collinmanderson 7y ago
      For comcenter.com I push CSS, except if the referrer is same origin. I _think_ it's working pretty well as far as I can tell.
      - jefftk 7y ago
        If you were up for running an A/B test (diverted per-user, since cache state is sticky) and writing up the results publicly I'd love to see it!
  - ldng 7y ago
    >> Or is it just an improvement for Cloud provider that keep pushing the Kool-Aid ? > I don’t see how that makes any sense at all. Could you explain that? I've seen a few CDN having a page loading a grid of image in HTTP/1 at page load, and then load the same stuff with HTTP/2 on a button click. It indeed shows you a nice speed up. Except, when you block the first HTTP/1 load and start with loading with HTTP/2 first and flush cache between loads, the speedup vanishes. The test is disingenuous, it is not testing HTTP/2 but DNS cache velocity. So, those type of website makes me rather cautious. And the test, for the small scale workloads I work with, have not been very conclusive. Do you have serious articles on the matter to recommend ? Preferably not CDN provider trying to sell me there stuff.