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Facebook's data-driven approach to web performance
case study

Facebook's data-driven approach to web performance

by Ben Maurer
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Overview

You’ve measured the performance of your site using developer tools on your computer. But what do real users see when they go to your site? Ben Maurer discusses how Facebook pieces together data from multiple sources—load balancers, CDNs, HHVM, resource timing, navigation timing, etc.—and uses it to make a fast site.

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