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> But I've heard mostly silence from Amazon Interestingly Amazon was one of the first non-Google companies to use SPDY. The Silk browser, first shipped in fall
by billyhoffman 12y ago
> But I've heard mostly silence from Amazon
Interestingly Amazon was one of the first non-Google companies to use SPDY. The Silk browser, first shipped in fall of 2011, includes an "acceleration feature." With it Amazon proxies your traffic and does a bunch of one the fly front-end optimizations (gzipping everything, lossless image optimization, giant shared caching proxy, basically a subset what mod_pagespeed can do). SPDY (and now presumably HTTP/2) is used between the tablet and Amazon's data centers.
- thom_nic 12y agoI've been watching this open feature request[0] to add SPDY support for AWS ELB. Been open since 2012 and hasn't seen any real response from Amazon. Very disappointing. ELB is pretty much a given for any publicly-facing web service running on AWS. [0] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=90109 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=90109
- billyhoffman 12y agoNow that is strange, since Amazon specifically touted that Silk was being powered by EC2 instances. Almost certainly they are using a load balancer. Perhaps they rolled their own.