Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

HTTP/3 is coming

The web is built on HTTP. There is no question about it. It's pretty amazing how well this protocol fared. Here is a quick recap: in 1991, Tim-Berneres-Lee proposes HTTP 0.9 to support his idea for a World Wide Web. In 1996, The HTTP Working Group publishes HTTP 1.0 as the informational RFC 1945 to enable the internet boom of the late 1990s. In 1997, the first official RFC 2068 for HTTP 1.1 is published. In 1999, RFC 2616 adds a number of improvements to HTTP 1.1 and remains the dominant standard for two decades. In 2015, HTTP/2 is published, based on the SPDY protocol by Google, and all major browsers add support for it.

gRPC is built on top of HTTP/2, which fixes a lot of issues with previous revisions of the HTTP and provides ...