Links tagged “http”
45 links, newest first.
techblog.netflix.com
Netflix on rebuilding its Zuul cloud gateway on Netty as an asynchronous non-blocking system, and how the measured gains differed from what they expected.
martinfowler.com
Martin Fowler's write-up of Leonard Richardson's four levels of REST maturity, from plain HTTP tunnelling through resources and verbs up to hypermedia controls.
github.com
Python wrapper around curl that visualises where an HTTP request spends its time — DNS, TCP, TLS, server processing and content transfer.
aws.amazon.com
AWS announcement that CloudFront can forward extra request headers — device type, viewer country, protocol — to the origin so it can tailor its responses.
tools.ietf.org
IETF Proposed Standard defining the /.well-known/ path prefix for site-wide metadata, together with a registry for well-known URI names.
github.com
Open-source API gateway built on NGINX, putting routing, load balancing, authentication and a plugin system in front of microservices.
developers.google.com
Guide to browser HTTP caching: how Cache-Control, ETag and Last-Modified work, and how to pick a strategy for versioned and unversioned URLs.
developers.google.com
How browsers cache responses, and how Cache-Control and ETag decide what is reused and what is fetched again.
apiblueprint.org
API Blueprint, a markdown-like description language for web APIs, with tooling for design, prototyping and documentation.
raml.org
Directory of tools built around RAML, the RESTful API Modeling Language, filterable by design, build, test, document, parser and utility.
couchdb.apache.org
Project page for Apache CouchDB, a document database with an HTTP/JSON API and a replication protocol that syncs data across servers, browsers and mobile devices.
askaboutphp.com
Part one of a guide to measuring how long a web page takes to load and graphing the result in Cacti.
leafo.net
A walkthrough of building an on-the-fly image processing server in under 100 lines of OpenResty and Lua, with signed request URLs and on-disk caching of the results.
docs.python-requests.org
Documentation for Requests, the Python HTTP client library, covering quickstart, sessions, authentication, proxies and the developer API.
nbonvin.wordpress.com
Benchmark of Apache (worker and event), Nginx, Varnish, G-WAN and Cherokee serving a 100-byte static file, followed by a comments thread disputing the methodology.
