Michael Arenzon
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Michael’s passion is around solving complex engineering problems while maintaining high velocity, with emphasis on building distributed and highly concurrent systems, creating (a real) large-scale infrastructure, and improving operational efficiency.

Currently he's an independent consultant focusing around platform engineering and developer experience worlds.

Proudly part of the DevOpsDays Tel Aviv organizing team!

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Session

06-21
15:10
120min
HTTP Fundamentals - Workshop
Michael Arenzon

HTTP is the de-facto standard protocol of the internet and heavily used in almost all systems - in depth understanding of HTTP is crucial for design, performance scaling and day to day operations.

Part 1 (~1h) HTTP Overview - History and Concepts

  1. Where is HTTP in the protocol stack, re-cap of HTTP versions, overview of well-known web servers (Apache/Nginx)
  2. Concepts - URI, method type, status code, header, etc.
  3. Advanced topics - Virtual hosting, Reverse/Forward proxies, TLS, protocol extensions, load-balancer, CDN.
  4. HTTP/2

Part 2 (~2h) [Hands On] Writing a web server

  1. Creating a basic HTTP server from scratch (URL and headers parsing, req/res flow)
  2. Implementing virtual hosting and dynamic routing
  3. Improving client handling with cache, compression, timeouts and keepalive.

Part 3 (~1h) [Hands On] Implementing advanced features

  1. Reverse proxy, SSE, SNI-based routing (TLS)
  2. HTTP pipelining (/multiplexing) and head-of-line blocking
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