Hyperactive: HTTP/2 and Python

The internet has spoken, HTTP is to get its first serious update in 15 years. In this talk we'll discuss what HTTP/2 is, why it's happening, and how it's going to affect you and everyone you love. We'll briefly talk about how you can get started with HTTP/2, and some interesting projects associated with it, including Hyper, the first Python HTTP/2 library.

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   Hyperactive
   HTTP/2 and Python
   

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   Hi
   

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   @lukasaoz
   @lukasa
   

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   Requests Core Contributor
   urllib3 Core Contributor
   Maintainer of 10+ others
   PSF Contributing Member
   

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6. HTTPBis Working Group
   HTTP/2 Stack (hyper)
   

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7. HTTP/1.1 is
   Old
   

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8. HTTP/1.1 is
   Inefficient
   

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9. HTTP/1.1 is
   Slowing Us
   Down
   

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10. HTTP/2
    

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11. Binary
    • Text protocols are easy to debug
    but complex to parse
    • Binary is simpler.
    • Simpler (usually) means faster
    

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12. Efficient
    • Multiplexing (with priority/flow control)
    • Header compression (HPACK)
    • Early stream termination.
    • Server Push
    

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13. Not
    universally
    well received
    

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14. Poul-Henning Kamp
    • “HTTP/2.0 is not a technical
    masterpiece…I would flunk
    students in my (hypothetical)
    protocol design class if they
    submitted it.”
    

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16. Imperfect
    

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17. HTTP/2 is Imperfect
    • Difficult to reason about
    • Challenging to debug
    • Awkward edge cases
    • Inherently concurrent
    

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18. Bloody
    Good!
    

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19. HTTP/1.1 HTTP/2
    

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20. Play
    

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21. Implementations
    nghttp2
    http2-katana
    node-http2
    Firefox
    http2-perl
    iij-http2
    Akamai Ghost
    Chromium
    GFE
    Twitter
    Wireshark
    Ericsson MSP
    http2
    http2-go
    OkHttp
    Trusterd
    http-2
    hyper
    libcurl
    cl-http2-protocol
    Netty
    Jetty
    F5
    Sasazka
    Internet Explorer
    Lucid
    H2O
    Undertow
    Deuterium
    OpenLiteSpeed
    Haskell
    Warp
    

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23. hyper
    • Actively developed.
    • Come help!
    • github.com/Lukasa/hyper
    • hyper.rtfd.org/en/development
    

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24. http2bin.org
    • Runscope’s httpbin.
    • Running behind H2O.
    • HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.
    

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25. Further Reading
    • http://daniel.haxx.se/
    http2/
    • http://http2.github.io
    

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26. Thanks!
    @lukasaoz
    @lukasa
    

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