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> It was one of the big reasons HTTP2 was meant to be a game changer Probably because it's a game changer only if you're at google/amazon/meta (or slightly sma
by znpy 2y ago
> It was one of the big reasons HTTP2 was meant to be a game changer
Probably because it's a game changer only if you're at google/amazon/meta (or slightly smaller) scale.
For everybody else its largely a huge complexity addition, and it's essentially ignored.
- bawolff 2y agoI suspect the issue is it wasn't really a game changer at google scale either.
- znpy 2y agoYeah i kinda don’t trust google anymore on going good engineering work. Nowadays they look like the cushy job providers, like banks in the 80s (i guess)
- KaiserPro 2y agoWe enabled HTTP2 in 2015 on the $big_financial_news_site. We had some influential JS people that were very keen to roll it out (they mostly ended up fastly after). I did warn that it would degrade all but the high bandwidth experience. It took a long time for them to "understand" the data, and that HTTP2 was not very useful, especially when compared the impact of changing CDN, or optimising for CDN caching.