Pinterest moves to HTTP/3
Pinterest moves to HTTP/3 on all their clients and edge CDNs this year. They witnessed interesting gains but not without good lesson learned. The main one was the mismatch of alt-svc vs DNS ttls. I cover this on the next episode of the backend engineering course. 0:00 Intro 2:00 Moving h2 to h3 through alt-svc 5:00 Why HTTP/3 6:00 HTTP/1 vs HTTP/2 9:00 TCP Head of Line blocking in HTTP/2 11:00 How HTTP/3 addresses HOL 12:15 Connection Migration 13:30 Stream level congestion control 14:10 1-RTT - 0-RTT 15:41 Pinterest challenges moving HTTP/3 19:00 Migration 21:15 Future work 22:30 Summary article https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/pinterest-is-now-on-http-3-608fb5581094 Fundamentals of Backend Engineering Design patterns udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://backend.husseinnasser.com