New Kindle has Fire, Silk, Android, and cloud computing
September 29, 2011
Amazon continues to change the game with the launch of the new Kindle tablet. I’ve posted further about this over at Good Screens Media.
The technical details of the new Silk browser are fascinating. Silk is a custom webkit browser that routes page requests through an Amazon proxy server. Pages get optimized within the proxy server. Information gets cached on EC2 servers to speed up DNS lookups and file downloads such as images, CSS, and JavaScript. EC2 will keep permanent connections open to popular sites like Facebook and Google to reduce latency.
Going still further, Amazon will monitor a user’s web traffic and intelligently pre-load pages on their actual device if it’s likely the user will soon visit that page. And like the Android world (and unlike the crazy world of iOS), Flash is supported.
At the Internet protocol level, the new browser improves performance further through the use of SPDY, short for “speedy”, that was developed by Google to enhance HTTP internet speeds through a combination of compression, optimization, and request prediction.
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