Notes on the book High Performance Browser Networking
This is a big book on performance for web developers. I am writing this article especially for myself as a reminder of the many things that can be improved in our apps and servers. What this book is about? In the words of the author: “ How the network works, why it works the way it does and what you can do to optimize it ” Key points and lessons learned Understand bandwidth (measured in Mbps) vs latency (measured in ms). Need to transfer many small pieces? Latency is priority. Need to send big files over same pipe others are transferring big files? Bandwidth is more important. ...