--- title: "How QUIC has gone from an experiment to being a key Internet protocol" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 242 published_at: "2019-11-13" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/242" --- Plus a new WebAssembly alliance, Rust goes async/await, Chrome aims to shame slow sites, and the MacBook Pro has regrown its escape key. #242 — November 13, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/242) StatusCode Covering the week's news in software development, infrastructure, ops, platforms, and performance. [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1573666483/q9942nkl0mhpl07rqjg3.jpg)](https://www.fastly.com/blog/maturing-of-quic) [The Maturing of QUIC](https://www.fastly.com/blog/maturing-of-quic) — QUIC, a transport layer protocol that uses UDP, has gone from an experiment to a key Internet standard in just over six years, and HTTP/3 is being built on top of it. This post covers the protocol’s history and takes us on its journey up to now. Jana Iyengar (Fastly) [The Bytecode Alliance: Building A Secure-by-Default, Composable Future for WebAssembly](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/announcing-the-bytecode-alliance/) — The _Bytecode Alliance_ is a new industry partnership (originally between Mozilla, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat) designed to forge WebAssembly’s ‘outside-the-browser’ future. If you’re not yet in sync with _why_ WebAssembly outside the browser makes sense, this announcement should give you a good idea. Mozilla Hacks [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/55e8f1ab.png)](https://www.bluematador.com?utm_source=cooperstatuscode) [Test Drive Blue Matador’s Alert Automation](https://www.bluematador.com?utm_source=cooperstatuscode) — Blue Matador is alert automation for cloud infrastructures. Our proactive alerts take the time and toil out of monitoring. Zero configuration and zero maintenance. Discover the unknowns in your infrastructure. 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Quick sites will be ‘rewarded’ with a green loading bar, whereas slow sites will be flagged with [an on-screen ‘badge of shame’](https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20959865/google-chrome-slow-sites-badge-system-chrome-dev-summit-2019)! Google **Quick bytes:** - Apple has [a new 16" MacBook Pro out.](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-introduces-16-inch-macbook-pro-the-worlds-best-pro-notebook/) The 'Escape' key is back, though the TouchBar remains. - Backblaze, the cloud storage service, has its latest blog post up covering [hard drive failure stats for Q3 2019.](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019/) - The UK's main opposition party, Labour, has [experienced a 'large-scale' cyber attack](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/12/uk/labour-party-cyber-attack-gbr-intl/index.html) on its platforms. 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