Links of the Week (1)

I decided to start sharing, in a weekly fashion, a few noteworthy links that I've found over the week. Hopefully will manage to be consistent and publish once a week.

• https://evertpot.com/h2-parallelism/
  An interesting exploration comparing the performance of HTTP 1.1 and 2.0 with different strategies for requesting data.

• http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/protos-are-wrong/
  A lengthy critique of protobuffers, mostly centered on its type system. In my current job, we use them extensively, from before my time there, but in my experience, I haven't suffered from the criticisms. Unfortunately, the author doesn't point to any better solution.

• https://julien.danjou.info/properly-managing-your-gitignore/
  Great explanation on how to use .gitignore files, the role of the local versus the global one.

• http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/
  A great and detailed tutorial on how to port a highly optimized C program into Rust.