davidbyttow

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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Thanks for the heads up guys!

We spent a good amount of time compressing our blocking bundle size (html, JS, CSS), which actually is JS for the entire app, not just that page. Certainly have more work to do, but given the amount of code, our JS/CSS is pretty low.

I just compressed the large image and it dropped to ~430KB.

Meanwhile, the other large asset is the animated GIF, which I suppose we could switch to a looping webm/mp4. Was hard to reduce the GIF further and keep the same quality...

Where's Pied Piper when you need them?

Comment · 11 years ago
It's not just routing. It hS to read modify write from DB first
Comment · 11 years ago
Clarified the 1MM number in the post.
Comment · 11 years ago
Your point is valid. This isn't ultra-high scale, just the name of the series I intend to publish more into. It's more about building a simple service for instant usage upon launch.

We also used Pusher for global in-app notifications, which had to scale past 1,000,000 concurrent connections.

Aside: 50000 concurrent requests on a single thread, huh? :) Unless I'm missing something, that's 50 seconds assuming a request takes only 1ms to process. Sounds like magic.

Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
That was caused by a bad link in the recode article. The journalist fixed it.
Comment · 13 years ago
I think FB is simply transitioning from product to utility, like electricity.

Just one example is its utility to sign up and log in to other services, which is 95%+ of my FB activity.

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