Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about 20 years of curl, what’s new with http2, and the backstory of QUIC - a new transport designed by Jim Roskind at Google which offers reduced latency compared to that of TCP+TLS+HTTP/2.

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Featuring:

Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Daniel Stenberg on Twitter: “Twenty years of maintaining open source, and all I ever got… “
Everything curl - Book
Copy as curl
Web transport, today and tomorrow
QUIC
QUIC Homepage
What is the difference between TPC and UDP?
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
The annual curl user survey is up. Please donate a few minutes and answer some questions!
curl survey 2017 – analysis | daniel.haxx.se

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