Gabriel Michael Homa
I translate complex technical risks into decisions people can act on. My background spans infrastructure, systems, and security, but what I've learned over time is that clarity not control is the foundation of resilience. I spend most of my time designing architectures that support trust: between systems, between teams, and between intent and outcome. While the tooling evolves constantly, the core questions stay the same - what matters most, and how do we protect it without standing in the way?
CSG
Security Architect
Session
In today's modern internet transport landscape, HTTP/3 and QUIC are often presented as the next step in the evolution of web transport, promising lower latency and improved multiplexing. However, adopting QUIC is not just a protocol upgrade - it fundamentally reshapes how application stacks, networking layers, and infrastructure interact.
In this talk we explore how QUIC and HTTP/3 change the traditional layering between transport, TLS, and application protocols. Using practical examples from working with HTTP/3 implementations across the stack - deployments with nginx and client-side experimentation with curl - we look at what it means to integrate QUIC into existing infrastructure. Topics include connection management, retry semantics, operational visibility, and performance trade-offs when introducing QUIC into production environments.
Finally, we discuss how QUIC’s architecture enables a gradual unification of the tech stack around shared transport abstractions.