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Mar 2023
25m 53s

Pinterest moves to HTTP/3

Hussein Nasser
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Pinterest moves to HTTP/3 on all their clients and edge CDNs this year. They witnessed interesting gains but not without good lesson learned. The main one was the mismatch of alt-svc vs DNS ttls. I cover this on the next episode of the backend engineering course. 0:00 Intro 2:00 Moving h2 to h3 through alt-svc 5:00 Why HTTP/3 6:00 HTTP/1 vs HTTP/2 9:00 TCP H ... Show More
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