When CSS loads last - HTTP Request Prioritization (RFC 9218) | The Backend Engineering Show

In this episode of the backend engineering show I go through the Extensible Prioritization Scheme for HTTP. This RFC addresses the problem in HTTP where the client prefers certain requests to be served before others. This RFC was designed by Lucas Pardue from Cloudflare and Kazoo Oku from Fastly.

0:00 The Request Priority Problem
13:00 How RFC 9218 addresses the problem
25:00 HTTP/1.x Backends
32:00 Summary

RFC 9218
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9218/

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