• Title: High Performance Browser Networking: What Every Web Developer Should Know about Networking and Web Performance
• Author(s) Ilya Grigorik
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media (May 22, 2013); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
• Paperback: 400 pages
• eBook: HTML and PDF (Complimented by NGINX)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1449344763
• ISBN-13: 978-1449344764
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Book Description

This book provides a hands-on overview of what every web developer needs to know about the various types of networks (WiFi, 3G/4G), transport protocols (UDP, TCP, and TLS), application protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2), and APIs available in the browser (XHR, WebSocket, WebRTC, and more) to deliver the best - fast, reliable, and resilient - user experience.

How prepared are you when it comes to building network-enabled applications? This book provides what every web developer should know about the network - from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser apps. By understanding what the browser can and cannot do, you'll be able to make better design decisions and deliver faster web applications to your users.

Author Ilya Grigorik - a developer advocate and web performance engineer at Google - starts with the building blocks of TCP and UDP, and then dives into newer technologies such as HTTP 2.0, WebSockets, and WebRTC. This book explains the benefits of these technologies and helps you determine which ones to use for your next application.

• Ilya Grigorik is a developer advocate and web performance engineer at Google. He spends his days and nights working on making the web faster and building and driving adoption of performance best practices.
  Prior to focusing on web performance Ilya was the founder and CTO of PostRank, a social analytics company which was acquired by Google and became the core of social analytics reporting within Google Analytics. Whenever not thinking web performance, or analytics, Ilya can be found contributing to open-source projects, reading, or building fun projects like VimGolf, GitHub Archive and others.

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