What Does HTTP/2 Mean for Front End Engineers?

About this presentation

HTTP/2, the long awaited update to the Web's venerable transfer protocol is now complete, and indeed supported in some browsers and by some servers. But we Front End Engineers don't need to worry about all that low level stuff right? After all it just makes everything faster between the client and server. Well, it's not quite that simple. In fact there are plenty of things you're likely doing right now, best practices for performance over the network like using sprites, domain sharding, concatentating files and the like that not only won't you have to do with HTTP/2, but which might actually make things worse. In this presentation we'll learn from the chair of the IETF working group that developed HTTP/2, Mark Nottingham about what HTTP/2 brings, and what you should and shouldn't be doing to get the most performance benefit from it.