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by KirinDave 2655 days ago
> One possibility is that HTTP/2 is much more work to implement

If that was true, I'd be convinced by it. But is it true? HTTP 1.1 is a pretty big and complicated spec.
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jmgao 2654 days ago
I think a more likely explanation is that HTTP/1.1 has been around forever (20 years!), while HTTP/2 is 4 years old, but about to be superseded.
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KirinDave 2654 days ago
I'm not sure that "HTTP/3 is about to overtake HTTP/2" is a very fair statement given how many years it took load balancers to start supporting HTTP/2.

HTTP/3 (QUIC) is genuinely exciting and I'm very eager to see it. But given it's even more different from http/2 than http/2 is from http 1.1, it's probably gonna be another 3-4 years before we see good load open source balancer performance in front of it.

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