Implementing the SPDY Protocol in the LinkedIn Social Network

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LinkedIn's team describes implementing Google's SPDY protocol (basis for HTTP/2) across their global web stack to speed delivery of static content. The talk covers SPDY's architecture, common CDN architectures, how SPDY was integrated into LinkedIn, the measurement methodology used to evaluate performance versus HTTP/1.1 and CDNs, and unexpected issues encountered during deployment.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 16:59SPDY protocol overview
3. 27:31Caching headers and memory
4. 31:39HTTP/2 transition and adoption
5. 33:52Performance gains with SPDY
6. 36:49Load balancing in SPDY
7. 38:19Open standards for real-time updates

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