Hussein Nasser
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Why WebSockets over HTTP/2 (RFC8441) is Critical for Effective Load Balancing and Backend Scaling
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Why WebSockets over HTTP/2 (RFC8441) is Critical for Effective Load Balancing and Backend Scaling

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.

0:00 Intro

3:00 WebSockets over HTTP/2

7:40 Proxy Supports

13:15 Browsers Supports

14:00 Summary

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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