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Optimizing HTTP/2 prioritization with BBR and tcp_notsent_lowat

Published on October 12th, 2018 12:00PM by Patrick Meenan.

Getting the best end-user performance from HTTP/2 requires good support for resource prioritization.

The Road to QUIC

Published on July 26th, 2018 3:04PM by Alessandro Ghedini.

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web.

Deprecating SPDY

Published on January 18th, 2018 3:58PM by Max Nystrom.

Participating in the Internet democracy occasionally means that technologies that were once popular lose their utility as newer technologies emerge. SPDY is one such technology. As a result, we're announcing our intention to deprecate the use of SPDY for connections made to Cloudflare's edge.

How to make your site HTTPS-only

Published on July 6th, 2017 1:35PM by Nick Sullivan.

The Internet is getting more secure every day as people enable HTTPS, the secure version of HTTP, on their sites and services.

So you want to expose Go on the Internet

Published on December 26th, 2016 2:59PM by Filippo Valsorda.

Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That's not necessary anymore!