[LRUG] [COURSE] HTTP In Depth

[Najaf Ali]

LRUGgers and LRUGgettes,

I've been kicking around the idea of doing a days worth of material on
everyone's favourite transport protocol for a while. The day will be packed
with exercises that have you either using command line tools or writing
servers/clients that implement the features we're looking at.

Here's what you'll be learning about on the day (to be confirmed):

* Basic transport (TCP connections, data transfer, requests and responses)
* Caching (headers + client/server behaviour, CDN's and caching proxy's)
* Cookies (header options, domain validity, use in session management,
security features)
* Other security features (e.g. TLS, CORS, HSTS, CSP)
* Bandwidth vs. Latency (and current tactics for minimising latency)
* Spangly new things that will make the web better (HTTP2/SPDY, Service
Worker, etc)

You'll need to be a developer with at least a few years of experience
building web applications to get real value from this workshop. You'll come
away with low-level knowledge of how the web works and will be able to put
that to use to build better software.

This is the first time I'm running this workshop so it will probably be a
bit rough around the edges. I've priced it accordingly and limited it to
half the attendees of a full-freight workshop so there's more time for me
to handle problems and still keep the quality of instruction high.

Venue: TBC (likely somewhere near Old Street)
Date: Tuesday 26th August
Cost: £120, max 8 attendees (will go up to £300 at max 16 after this beta)

If for whatever reason you attend the workshop and feel it wasn't worth
what you paid then let me know and I'll initiate a full refund.

If you'd like to attend, please go ahead and purchase tickets via the page
on Eventbrite <http://http-in-depth.eventbrite.co.uk>.

All the best,

-Ali

*P.S. Want to do the security workshop
<http://happybearsoftware.com/security-workshop> instead? I'm currently
running it in-house at companies on a fixed-price basis (not per-seat), so
if you would like me to teach your development team how to comprehensively
violate Ruby on Rails applications, do get in touch!*
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