
6/15/2012 · Matthew Prince
What this post added
This post introduces Cloudflare's beta rollout of SPDY, a new network protocol designed to make web pages faster by addressing HTTP bottlenecks. It highlights SPDY's key features like connection multiplexing, out-of-order object delivery, and header compression. The post also details the caveats of SPDY, such as browser support and the SSL requirement, and explains how Cloudflare's platform, including Rocket Loader, makes SPDY easier to implement and more effective by acting as a gateway and overcoming some of its inherent limitations.