The author measured that their CDN setup resulted in worse page load times than just serving from their server. Why? What advantage did serving all the content themselves have over the CDN setup?Your answer should be clear and a little bit technical. Was it latency? Was it transfer time? Was it server processing time? Something else? What was it?
Submit a one paragraph pdf file to the course dropbox.
One theme running through the article is SSL. SSL is basically an encrypted TCP stream. It's used on
https URL's. (Okay, these days we use TLS, but the distinctions are irrelevant to this homework.)
The first diagram in the article linked as
SSL resumption
tells you what you need to know about SSL for this homework. (You don't need to understand anything about the
cryptography, or even read about it. Start by just looking at the first diagram.)
SPDY is a Google-sponsored predecessor to HTTP 2. For this assignment,
you can think of it as identical to HTTP 2.