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Re:HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-genera... by tialaramex on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:50PM (#30318666)
> since then I still haven't seen it used in production in the jobs I worked at

How do you know? Most of the Alexa top 100k web sites are HTTP/2 but I suspect a great many of the people working on those web sites have no idea HTTP/2 exists, it simply has no impact on their work. It probably has no impact on your work.

Re:HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-genera... by linkdd on Saturday February 12, 2022 @10:05PM (#30318733)
Because I mostly worked with teams who built internal tools, be it monitoring solutions, or APIs consumed by BI tools, or custom CMDBs, custom CMS, etc...

Every single one of them was deploying the projects on the internal infrastructure, sometimes a small Kubernetes cluster, some other times just an EC2 instance, most of the time just one or two VMs.

Each employee was given a computer with a VPN client pre-installed, to connect to the internal infra.

The biggest company I've worked with had 10k employees, still not enough to see any impact on performance on the slowest single-threaded service we made.

When deploying, we were simply adding to the internal DNS server an A record "service.internal-domain.tld" pointing to the IP of our server. No load balancer, no reverse proxies, no HTTP/2 in the stack.

It's cheap, it works, it's certainly not something you would do if you were serving a SaaS application to millions of user on the world wide web, but it's definitely enough for internal stuff.

Even Google does not have more than 100k of employees.

Re:HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-genera... by jeeeb on Sunday February 13, 2022 @12:45AM (#30319585)
If you’re primarily writing internal tooling then http2 is unlikely to be particularly relevant or beneficial to you (unless using gRPC or similar).

However, turning on http2 for an org might mean nothing more than toggling some settings on a reverse proxy, no code changes required and little to no visibility or fuss for developers.

Re:HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-genera... by darrenf on Saturday February 12, 2022 @11:57PM (#30319349)
> Even Google does not have more than 100k of employees.

Alphabet has over 150k employees.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204422...