While what we have talked about is the present state of communicating among processes, threads, and other computers, there is a new way for information to be passed around. The new standard is called HTTP/3 and it differs from the previous two iterations significantly.
A quick glance at HTTP/3
The QUIC protocol
Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) was introduced by Google in 2012. It is a protocol similar to the TCP, Transport Layer Security (TLS), and HTTP/2 protocols, but it is all transmitted over UDP. This means that a lot of the overhead that is built into TCP has been removed and replaced with a new method of sending data. On top of this, since TLS is built into the protocol, it means that the overhead of adding security...