[stanleydrew]

This isn't really about Rails at all. But it's still useful as another anecdote about how SPDY is used in production.

Basically if you are set up with the now-fashionable architecture of a caching reverse proxy serving static content (nginx or Apache) sitting in front of a set of application servers then this applies to you too.

Just compile nginx with the SPDY patch or use mod_spdy with Apache and your back-end application servers won't even need to know what the transport protocol between client and reverse proxy is. It will be handled transparently.