Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Aug 14 10:58:25 CDT 2012
Thanks for catching that... NGINX The article I was reading did not mention that Apache was now on board and it appears that all the major players are there but... Microsoft is holding back and they are debating whether they can support the new standard or will they just write their own. We hope this does not turn out like the IE x debacle where MS failed to implement the W3C standards regarding HTML5 and CSS3. As the new protocol is not a hundred percent done deal maybe a negotiated standard can be set. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57404353-264/microsoft-googles-spdy-is-nic e-for-a-faster-web-but../ The SPDY (HTTP 2.x protocol) can guarantee a 30 to an almost 50 percent increase in performance depending on the data being transferred and the requirement needed. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/124153-sm-vs-spdy-microsoft-and-google- battle-over-the-future-of-http-2-0 If you are using the Chrome browser you can do some performance testing yourself: <quote> In testing, SPDY loads web pages about 40% faster than HTTP. In practice, SPDY is currently supported by Chrome (though it will be on by default in Firefox 13), but only a handful of websites serve SPDY content (mostly Google's own services). If you've ever wondered why Chrome seems to load Google search or Gmail so much faster than other browsers, look no further than SPDY. </quote> Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian Andersen Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 10:00 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] A new protocol for the web It's not just NGINX. Apache also has support for SPDY developed and open sourced by Google (so a sort of official stamp of approval). http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/ Hans On 2012-08-11, at 10:09 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > http1/2 protocol has just about run its course. > > New internet devices now absorbs so much bandwidth but see little real > performance improvement other than employing better methods to handle the > latency. > > Enter a new protocol named SPDY (pronounced speedy). Most of the major > players in the browser market have been building support for this protocol > but Microsoft is still... > > The one big issue is that the new protocol is not backward compatible. > Fortunately, the second largest adopted web server INGNX (pronounced > engineX) is now fully supporting the new standard. > > For more information see: > http://bitsup.blogspot.de/2012/08/the-road-to-http2.html > > ...and... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com