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Webtide
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Webtide is the company blog at webtide.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Do Loom’s Claims Stack Up? Part 1: Millions of Threads?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Webtide's posts as sources on Jetty, HTTP/2, SPDY, TLS performance and Java virtual threads. The comments cite these posts as support or examples rather than judging their quality.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Do Loom’s Claims Stack Up? Part 1: Millions of Threads?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-29
- HTTP/2 Last Call2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-04
- The “Eat What You Kill” execution strategy (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-28
What Hacker News says?
Here's a Java program that spins up 1 million virtual threads: https://webtide.com/do-looms-claims-stack-up-part-1/
Comment linking /do-looms-claims-stack-up-part-1/
on “Half a million lines of Go”Submitted The “Eat What You Kill” execution strategy (2015) as a story · 70 points
HN discussionhttps://webtide.com/servlets-must-die-slowly/ No comments there, but you can read about his probable contributions to the continuations API in later posts maybe? Sure we all try to implement HTTP the best we can, the difference is how fast and efficiently we do it.
Comment linking /servlets-must-die-slowly/
on “A Picture of Java in 2020”Submitted HTTP/2 Last Call as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFrom what I could find online, there are no plans to include websockets as part of HTTP/2 (according to this: https://webtide.com/http2-last-call/ ). HTTP/2 is meant to supersede all websocket use cases.
Comment linking /http2-last-call/
on “Yesterday's best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns”Submitted Do Loom’s Claims Stack Up? Part 1: Millions of Threads? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTake a look at conscrypt https://github.com/google/conscrypt According to reports into Jetty folks, using conscript for TLS, gives 10x improvements https://webtide.com/conscrypting-native-ssl-for-jetty/ Note, that, from what I read, conscrypt is not compiled for any of the BSDs so if you are testing there, you will have to compile conscrypt yourself
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on “Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure”Submitted Unix Sockets for Jetty 9.4? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNow added to the small list of SPDY enabled sites as I find them: https://www.webtide.com/ https://twitter.com https://spdytest.com https://spdy-twitlog.indutny.com https://www.codecentric.de (and of course google.com, gmail and youtube.com) Of course the number will explode in a few months but fun to know the handful in the "early days". ps. SPDY indicator for Firefox 11+ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ad…
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on “Jetty gets 'SPDY'”Submitted End of Life: Changes to Eclipse Jetty and CometD (2025) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile this is definitely a good new, we need to be very careful. Why? Those new fancy threads are stored on heap and need to be garbage collected. If you buy into ads and believe that you can create for free millions of threads, then, well, it is not gonna work on production. Because of this server based on new threads does not need to be more performant, Jetty server guys tested this and they were not that happy: h…
Comment linking /do-looms-claims-stack-up-part-1/
on “Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency”Submitted Renaming Jetty from Javax.* To Jakarta as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think you are on to something here and it is more about http/1.3 than http/1.1. I am actively rejecting HTTP/2 purposely after the findings of my network protocol security analysis of the many HTTP/2 variants. It reminds me of the classic overlapping IP fragmentation packets (Windows vs. BSD). https://webtide.com/rfc7230/
Comment linking /rfc7230/
on “History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today”Submitted If Virtual Threads are the solution, what is the problem? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJetty can be used with virtual threads: https://webtide.com/jetty-12-virtual-threads-support/
Comment linking /jetty-12-virtual-threads-support/
on “Helidon Níma: The first Java microservices framework based on virtual threads”Submitted Do Loom’s Claims Stack Up? Part 1: Millions of Threads? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jetty 10 and 11 Have Arrived as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eat What You Kill Without Starvation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eat What You Kill as a story · 1 points
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