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The Website Is Down
On TLS performance
We have deployed TLS at a large scale using both hardware and software load balancers. We have found that modern software-based TLS implementations running on commodity CPUs are fast enough to handle heavy HTTPS traffic load without needing to resort to dedicated cryptographic hardware. We serve all of our HTTPS traffic using software running on commodity hardware.
Doug Beaver, Facebook
HTTP2 Expression of Interest
Is TLS Fast Yet?
TLS has exactly one performance problem: it is not used widely enough. Everything else can be optimized.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in a few days.