technologyMar 16, 202325:53pending
Pinterest moves to HTTP/3
About this episode
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
Get every episode summarized
Each time The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Caching is a cop-out
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Sep 11, 202615:41completed
How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Aug 23, 202617:57pending
How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Jul 10, 202621:20pending
Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Jun 17, 202634:08pending