Skip to Main Content
High Performance Browser Networking
book

High Performance Browser Networking

by Ilya Grigorik
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
398 pages
10h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Book available

Overview

How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent 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 applicationsâ??including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket, and WebRTC.

Author Ilya Grigorik, a web performance engineer at Google, demonstrates performance optimization best practices for TCP, UDP, and TLS protocols, and explains unique wireless and mobile network optimization requirements. Youâ??ll then dive into performance characteristics of technologies such as HTTP 2.0, client-side network scripting with XHR, real-time streaming with SSE and WebSocket, and P2P communication with WebRTC.

  • Deliver superlative TCP, UDP, and TLS performance
  • Speed up network performance over 3G/4G mobile networks
  • Develop fast and energy-efficient mobile applications
  • Address bottlenecks in HTTP 1.x and other browser protocols
  • Plan for and deliver the best HTTP 2.0 performance
  • Enable efficient real-time streaming in the browser
  • Create efficient peer-to-peer videoconferencing and low-latency applications with real-time WebRTC transports
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Networking Fundamentals

Networking Fundamentals

Gordon Davies
Computer Networks, Fifth Edition

Computer Networks, Fifth Edition

David J. Wetherall, Andrew S. Tanenbaum
TCP/IP Guide

TCP/IP Guide

Charles M. Kozierok

Publisher Resources

Errata Page