
gRPC over HTTP/3 is finally a thing | Backend Engineering Show
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The gRPC team just submitted a proposal to support HTTP/3. This is big news and we have been waiting for a long time for this. In this show, I’ll discuss why would you want gRPC, why gRPC picked HTTP/2, what is actually wrong with HTTP/2 and what HTTP/3 solves. And Finally, I’ll discuss what is wrong with HTTP/3 and pitfalls that you as gRPC user might run into. Let us discuss!
0:00 Intro
1:30 why gRPC
5:20 gRPC & HTTP/2
7:30 gRPC & HTTP/3
8:50 What is wrong with HTTP/2
29:30 What is good about HTTP/3
37:00 What’s wrong with HTTP/3
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