Ops Briefing: HTTP2 Adoption By @LMacVittie | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps

It’s been just over a year since the HTTP/2 standard was made the “official” HTTP standard. When we’re talking about an entrenched – like dug in and with enough rations to outlast a multi-year siege entrenched – technology, however, it takes a lot more than just a stamp of approval on a standard to get it propagating. Consider, for example, the lackluster adoption of IPv6. Oh sure, we’ve got a lot of dual stacks running out there but no one has, despite all the cries of “we must or else”, gone all in and dropped IPv4. Yet. And IPv6 was ratified before the turn of the century, back in 1998. Nearly 20 years and we’re still struggling to go all in.

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