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1. 2027-07-20The Layers of HTTP in the Browser: From fetch() to QUIC7/9

   HTTP/2: Multiplexing Changed the Frontend Network Model

   The same HTTP semantics, a different wire format. Many parallel requests do not mean many sockets, and stream independence ends at TCP.

   • Multiplexing
   • Streams
   • HPACK
   • Head-of-line blocking

   DevOps / Networking
2. 2027-07-06The Layers of HTTP in the Browser: From fetch() to QUIC6/9

   HTTP/1.1: Where Waterfalls and Bundling Came From

   Bundling, sprite sheets and domain sharding were answers to the cost of many requests. Frontend architecture adapted itself to the limits of the protocol.

   • Waterfall
   • Bundling
   • Domain sharding
   • Head-of-line blocking

   DevOps / Networking