It’s been a month full of announcements of new products from Google. This time its SPDY, short form for SPeeDY, an application layer protocol experimentation. With this new protocol experimentation, Google is trying to improve the communication speed between web browsers and web servers. Here’s what Google say’s about SPDY:
SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. It is designed specifically for minimizing latency through features such as multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression.
What’s the need for SPDY?
The BIG question here is what’s the need for a new protocol, such as SPDY, when we already have HTTP? The answer is simple: Google Web OS. I’m sure that you already aware of Google’s plan to bring out a web-centered operating system based on Chrome browser.In order to function fastly Google’s Web OS, on par with a desktop OS, definitely need a better way of communicating between web clients and web servers. It may not be possible if the entire web still using the age old HTTP. Apart from that, Google will also want to have an edge on the communication protocol which may be implemented as a main medium for it’s web OS in future.
So, keeping that point in mind, Google is attempting its every chance to make the web faster - by suggesting best practices, by releasing a Firefox extension and by experimenting on a new web protocol SPeeDY.
So, what’s your thoughts on SPDY?
