The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Hussein Nasser
Why WebSockets over HTTP/2 (RFC8441) is Critical for Effective Load Balancing and Backend Scaling
16 minutes Posted Mar 21, 2021 at 1:22 am.
Intro
WebSockets over HTTP/2
Proxy Supports
Browsers Supports
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In this video, I'll discuss RFC8441 bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/2 which I believe a critical protocol to allow WebSockets tunneling to scale on the backend. We will also discuss the current state of the art of Proxy and Backend Supports for this tech. Let us have a discussion.
RFC 8441
Resources
RFC8441
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8441#section-4
nginx support
https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1992
haproxy support
https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/162
Chrome support
https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6251293127475200
Firefox support
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434137
envoy support
https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overview/http/upgrades
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