Twitter adds SPDY support to Netty

Twitter adds SPDY support to Netty(netty.io)

121 points by cgbystrom 14 years ago | 18 comments

spullara 14 years ago |

This is a big deal for sites that want to rival Google sites performance-wise. Especially now that it will be in Firefox 11 in addition to Chrome. It would be great if any of the popular proxy servers - like Nginx - also had support for it.

firemanx 14 years ago | |

Last I heard, it was in the works for NGinx:

https://twitter.com/#!/nginxorg/status/150112670966747137

bensummers 14 years ago |

I presume that it doesn't support SNI (for SSL vhosts) as the underlying JVM doesn't support it for servers? (I couldn't see anything in the docs, and it says it uses the JVM's SSL support underneath.)

One of the Google chaps said that SPDY required SNI when it was originally announced, so I was hopeful for a while.

ivanr 14 years ago | |

Server Name Indication was added in Java 7, so I would expect that Netty supports it too, assuming you're running the latest version of the Java runtime.

wbier 14 years ago | | |

the missing piece is next protocol negotiation. we're working on releasing this code soon. expanded support in finagle (github.com/twitter/finagle) is also forthcoming.

bensummers 14 years ago | | |

In the server as well as the client?

tlrobinson 14 years ago |

Cool, support seems to be picking up. Here's a list of implementations: http://dev.chromium.org/spdy

Nginx seems to be the big missing one. I think Mongrel2 would be a good fit too.

moonchrome 14 years ago |

Yey ! I just wrote a server on top of Netty and figured out how to use SPDY to boost my performance but couldn't find SPDY implementation for Netty. Thank you twitter !

ww520 14 years ago |

That's very cool. Netty is amazing already in term of performance. This just pushes it up another rung.

benmmurphy 14 years ago |

i have an example of SPDY+Netty+NPN here: https://github.com/benmmurphy/netty_spdy_example

it works with chrome which is quite nice to see.