PyCon 2016 in Portland, Or
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Tuesday 11:30 a.m.–noon

HTTP/2 and Asynchronous APIs

Davey Shafik

Audience level:
Intermediate
Category:
Other

Description

HTTP/2 (H2) is coming, and along with it a whole new way of communicating over the web. Connection re-use, prioritization, multiplexing, and server push are just some of the features in H2, and they will change how the web works.

Abstract

HTTP/2 (H2) is coming, and along with it a whole new way of communicating over the web. Connection re-use, prioritization, multiplexing, and server push are just some of the features in H2. In this talk we'll look at the HTTP/2 protocol, and at how we can use asynchronous request now with HTTP/1.x. We will also look at what asychronous requests and H2 mean for your API and clients in the future.