Nice. Added it to my reading queue. Thanks for the tip!
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 9:14:42 AM UTC-8, Jens Alfke wrote: > > I spent some time over the holidays reading Ilya Grigorik's *High-Performance > Browser > Networking*<http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/index.html> > (O’Reilly) > which can be read free online. It’s a really, really, *really* good book, > and I highly recommend it to all of you. > > The first three parts are valuable for anyone writing networked code, not > just web-apps: > > I. Networking 101 — Overview of IP networking from packets up through SSL, > including the important details of the TCP protocol. > > II. Performance of Wireless Networks — discusses how WiFi and the many > cellular protocols work. I learned a lot from this, especially the alphabet > soup of the cellular world (3GPP, HSDPA, LTE…) It focuses a lot on latency > and power consumption. > > III. HTTP — All about how HTTP works. I knew most of this, but the > coverage of HTTP 2.0 was all new to me and very interesting. > > The rest of the book is more browser-focused, so it wasn’t as useful for > me personally; but the stuff above is easily worth the cost of the book, > and a total no-brainer to read for free. > > —Jens > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase Mobile" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/085446f8-3a3e-4720-877a-910be9e9a20f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
