Don’t Underutilize These 5 Amazing HTTP Performance Features

So, you’ve published a web API? Well done! You’re serving it over HTTP(S), right? Most developers see no reason to distrust the protocol that’s been holding the web together for almost 30 years. HTTP is very performant, scalable and reliable – in fact, it has multiple nifty performance features to make sure developers can make the most out of the applications built upon it. In this article we explore a few of them, because even though most popular web servers support them, you may need to enable or configure them, and the first step is understanding them.

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