High Performance Browser Networking: What every web developer should know about networking and browser performance

Ilya Grigorik

O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, May 15, 2013 - Computers - 200 pages

How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications--including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket, and WebRTC.

Author Ilya Grigorik, a web performance engineer at Google, demonstrates performance optimization best practices for TCP, UDP, and TLS protocols, and explains unique wireless and mobile network optimization requirements. You'll then dive into performance characteristics of technologies such as HTTP 2.0, client-side network scripting with XHR, real-time streaming with SSE and WebSocket, and P2P communication with WebRTC.

• Deliver superlative TCP, UDP, and TLS performance
• Speed up network performance over 3G/4G mobile networks
• Develop fast and energy-efficient mobile applications
• Address bottlenecks in HTTP 1.x and other browser protocols
• Plan for and deliver the best HTTP 2.0 performance
• Enable efficient real-time streaming in the browser
• Create efficient peer-to-peer videoconferencing and low-latency applications with real-time WebRTC transports

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User Review  - nmarun - LibraryThing

This book introduces readers to many technologies - old and new (ish). It doesn't go very deep into any one particular technology, it is a great book that can act as a refresher, crash-course ...

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The first two parts of this book describe the four lower layers of the OSI stack with an emphasis on performance and wireless technology. The third part treats HTTP (including HTTP 2.0), also with a ...

About the author

Ilya Grigorik is a developer advocate and web performance engineer at Google. He spends his days and nights working on making the web faster and building and driving adoption of performance best practices.



Prior to focusing on web performance Ilya was the founder and CTO of PostRank, a social analytics company which was acquired by Google and became the core of social analytics reporting within Google Analytics. Whenever not thinking web performance, or analytics, Ilya can be found contributing to open-source projects, reading, or building fun projects like VimGolf, GitHub Archive and others.

Bibliographic information

• Title: High Performance Browser Networking: What every web developer should know about networking and browser performance
• Author: Ilya Grigorik
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, 2013
• ISBN: 1449344763, 9781449344764
• Length: 200 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Internet / Web Programming