So the IETF has decided to use Google/Doubleclick's SPDY as the basis of HTTP 2.0. The rationale for this change is that increased network speeds are now limited by network latency. One of the interesting comments to the discussion was from Facebook, which admitted they've reworked their content delivery infrastructure and practices to gain any value from SPDY/HTTP 2.0.

Why would they have to rework their infrastructure? Because the best practices for web development have been developed to deliver content to desktop browsers. These best practices are to minimize HTTP requests via asset concatenation ...