Proxy

Performance
Web
Security

Six connections and a long queue: how a TLS-inspecting proxy quietly turned HTTP/2 into HTTP/1.1

Ronald Bradford
October 12, 2026

I recently tracked down a performance problem that turned out not to be in the application, the servers, or the CDN. A corporate TLS-inspecting proxy sat between the users and the site.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Computing RDS WDILTW

#WDILTW – AWS RDS Proxy

Ronald Bradford
February 6, 2021

This week I was evaluating AWS RDS Proxy . If you are familiar with the Relational Database Service (RDS) and use MySQL or Postgres, this is an additional option to consider.