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		rmccue on Sept 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Amazon Silk I wonder, in terms of having many connections, could the same thing be done by a HTTP -> SPDY gateway? It saves having a multitude of connections for a single request, and also is more compressed.

ctcherry on Sept 28, 2011 [–]

I think that is exactly what the Silk cloud is doing: http://aws.amazon.com/amazonsilk-jobs/

rmccue on Sept 28, 2011 | [–]

Aha! That's awesome. Apart from that, it seems like it's normal optimisation techniques (compressing/resizing images, etc).

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