I am a principle software engineer that specializes in Internet and web protocols like HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC.

I presently work at Cloudflare on the Protocols team who own Layer 4 and Layer 7 termination and proxying, helping to improve the security and performance of Internet-facing services. In this role I focus on the application-layer enhancements made possible by leading edge developments in the underpinning protocols. As part of that I’m a co-maintainer of quiche, an open source library for HTTP/3 and QUIC written in Rust.

I produced this poster as part of a university module entitled Communicating Science.

The poster was targeted toward GCSE and A-Level students hence the bold design and colours to help improve attraction and interest.

I originally uploaded this poster to a past incarnation of www.lucaspardue.co.uk and I was partially surprised to find relinked or reblogged on several sites concerning infographics, physics etc. The poster is linked to by a Rutgers assignment page concerning Information Design and I still seem to have traffic coming from there, so for all the visitors that have been hunting for the poster, here it is.

The following is a collection of openly available publications beyond this blog that I have authored or co-authored.

RFCs

• RFC 9218 Extensible Prioritization Scheme for HTTP
• RFC 9530 Digest Fields
• RFC 9297 HTTP Datagrams and the Capsule Protocol

Internet-Drafts

Some of these are abandoned or expired:

• Maintaining Protocols Using Grease and Variability
• Resumable Uploads for HTTP
• qlog: Structured Logging for Network Protocols
• QUIC event definitions for qlog
• HTTP/3 qlog event definitions
• Guidance for HTTP Capsule Protocol Extensibility
• Using HTTP/3 Stream Limits in HTTP/2
• QUIC on Streams
• HTTP/3 on Streams
• HTTP Identity Digest
• HTTP Problem Types for Digest Fields
• HTTP priority order extension
• A Preconnect Hint for SVCB/HTTPS RR
• HTTP Alternative Services, Plan B
• An Alt-Svc Parameter and SvcParamKey for QUIC Versions
• HTTP-initiated Network Tunnelling (HiNT)
• HTTP Datagram Prioritization
• HTTP over multicast QUIC
• Multicast Extension for QUIC

Blog Posts

• QUIC version 1 is Live of Cloudflare
• A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet
• How to test HTTP/3 and QUIC with Firefox Nightly
• Adopting a new approach to HTTP prioritization
• HTTP/3: From root to tip
• Adaptive Media Streaming over HTTP/2 at the BBC
  • Trial Announcment
  • Results
  • Performance Lab testing

Other

• BBC R&D White Paper 336: Scalable media delivery on the Web with HTTP Server Push

SpotifyStatusApplet was broken by a Spotify API change made in Q3 2018. All previous downloads have been removed from this site. I switched to a Logitech G915 TKL in 2021, so I no longer have any plans to work on applets.

SpotifyStatusApplet - an LCD applet for the Logitech Gaming keyboard family.

From version 1.2, the field titles (Track, Album and Artist) can be toggled on/off by pressing “soft key 1”, the first key underneath the LCD on most models.