BigPipe: How Facebook Streamed Pages Before Streaming SSR Was Cool
Facebook's BigPipe streamed pages in chunks instead of waiting for the slowest backend service. Here's how pagelets worked, what they cost, and why the idea still matters.
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Facebook's BigPipe streamed pages in chunks instead of waiting for the slowest backend service. Here's how pagelets worked, what they cost, and why the idea still matters.