HTTP/2: Because The Web Was Too Easy

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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1. HTTP/2
   Because The Web Was
   Too Easy
   

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2. Hi
   

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3. @lukasaoz
   @lukasa
   

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5. Requests Core Contributor
   urllib3 Core Contributor
   Maintainer of 10+ others
   

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6. Member:
   IETF HTTPBis Working Group
   Implementer:
   HTTP/2 Stack (hyper)
   

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7. HTTP is
   Everywhere
   

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8. HTTP is Everywhere
   • The web is HTTP.
   • Many of you work with the
   web.
   • Your jobs depend on HTTP.
   

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9. HTTP is
   Imperfect
   

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10. HTTP is
    • Complicated
    • Inefficient
    • High latency
    

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11. HTTP is
    Holding Us
    Back
    

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12. What’s The
    Solution?
    

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13. New Protocol!
    • From the IETF
    • HTTPBis WG starts discussion
    in 2012
    • Based on SPDY
    

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14. HTTP/2
    

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

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

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17. Imperfect
    

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18. HTTP/2 is Imperfect
    • Designed quickly.
    • Based on SPDY.
    • Designed primarily for
    browsers
    

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

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20. Play
    

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21. Implementations
    • hyper (Python, client)
    • nghttp2 (C, client and server)
    • Firefox (Browser)
    • curl/libcurl (client)
    

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

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23. Further Reading
    • http2-explained.rtfd.org
    • http2.github.io
    

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24. Thanks!
    @lukasaoz
    @lukasa
    

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