What is HTTP/2 and how to deploy it?

For people working with web sites and web applications, there is never a lack of new things to learn. HTTP/2 is one of these things. It will be in a very significant role in both the lives of developers and users of all web services. Somewhat contrarily it won't change anything to the users of these. Or even the developers.

Written by Jani Tarvainen on Thursday November 12, 2015
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Varnish HTTP/2 with SSL/TLS offloading on H2O

Varnish is a popular reverse proxy which is used to accelerate page loading by caching copies as static HTML. Varnish does not support SSL/TLS, which is in practise required to take use of the new HTTP/2 protocol. This article describes one way of achieving high performance using Varnish and HTTP/2.

Written by Jani Tarvainen on Wednesday October 14, 2015
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Compare resource loading between HTTP/2 (H2O) and HTTP/1.1 (Nginx)

Written by Jani Tarvainen on Thursday June 25, 2015
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Benchmarking HTTP/2 servers with h2load - an Apache Bench & Siege equivalent

Written by Jani Tarvainen on Tuesday June 23, 2015
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Serving PHP on HTTP/2 with H2O and HHVM (Symfony, WordPress, Drupal...)

HTTP/2 as a protocol was locked down in February 2015 and published in the May of same year. It's the first major revamp of the most important (IMHO) protocol since 1999. It's no silver bullet, but the upgrade offers improvements that will make a big difference when applied in scale. Help save the planet (yes, really) and start deploying today!

Written by Jani Tarvainen on Monday June 22, 2015
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