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by otabdeveloper2 2660 days ago
> Better

No, http2 is not better. We actually did the tests. We're not quite Google-scale, but having to handle tens of thousands of requests per second put us in the 'high load' camp.

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What was the issue? Why was it worse?
The extra CPU load for our balancers (nginx) didn't translate into any benefits for the user in performance or user experience. We ended up spending CPU cycles for no benefit.

Basically, HTTP/2 is tuned for a very specific case of Google traffic which pretty much never happens in places that aren't Google.

this is not a useful statement without context or data.
Neither is the parent comment.