QUIC: in Theory and Practice
On 10th May 2018 at The QEII Centre as part of DeltaV Conference
This talk will discuss the new QUIC protocol and why it is needed/important for web performance in particular. I will start by discussing the shortcomings of the current HTTP/2 setup and how QUIC aims to help solve them. I will discuss the bolder aspects of the new standard and the open challenges.
The second part will detail our own experience in developing a QUIC implementation and from looking at other open source implementations. This will also incorporate some findings from related state of the art academic research on QUIC. We end by contemplating how quickly the new standard will evolve and what developers can do in preparation, especially if they have not yet transferred to HTTP/2 yet.
Session video
Presented by
Robin Marx is a Web Performance researcher at Hasselt University, Belgium. He is currently looking into HTTP/2 and QUIC and how to automate performance best practices. In a previous life, he was a multiplayer game programmer and co-founder of LuGus Studios. In the weekends, Robin hits other people with longswords.
Event
DeltaV Conference
Date
10th May 2018
Skill level
Intermediate / Advanced