Application Optimization: Protocol Optimization
Cutting chatty protocols down to size.
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Hi, I’m Thomas. Welcome to the lightboard session about application optimization. For applications based on HTTP or CIFS, it is possible to apply protocol-specific optimization.
HTTP requests usually come with large headers that tend to be very similar across different requests. To address this, we replace the large headers with smaller representations. The CIFS protocol, on the other hand, is known for being very chatty. We accelerate this application by reducing the back-and-forth communication using techniques like read-ahead and write-behind.
In this way, we can optimize traffic by either reducing the required bandwidth for HTTP traffic or minimizing the effects of latency for the CIFS protocol.
