FREE ebook online: High Performance Browser Networking

How prepared are you when it comes to building high-performance web applications? This book, High Performance Browser Networking, provides what every developer must know about networking in the browser to build faster, more responsive applications—from fundamental protocol limitations that affect performance to architecture and constraints of mobile networks and devices. By understanding how the underlying protocols work, you’ll be able to make better design decisions and deliver faster web applications to your users.

Author Ilya Grigorik—a developer advocate and web performance engineer at Google—starts with the building blocks of TCP, UDP and TLS, and then dives into newer technologies such as HTTP 2.0, WebSockets, and WebRTC. This book explains how these technologies work under the hood, their benefits, and provides hands-on optimization tips and best practices for each.

• Learn how TCP affects the performance of HTTP
• Learn about the limitations and best practices of designing for wireless networks
• Learn about the architecture of mobile networks, and its implications for your applications
• Learn how HTTP 2.0 (based on SPDY) will address current performance bottlenecks
• Learn how WebRTC, WebSockets, SSE, and XHR requests work under the hood and when and where to use them
• Learn the performance best practices and recommendations for all of the above

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