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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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The Backend of Facebook, Part One of Four of the Nget Request - Part One
The latency of a web request is very critical, especially in the back. If we receive an acknowledgment, that means it seems like this server actually can handle this. So be patient and send the second segment and wait for an acknowledgment before sending the third segments. One 60 milly second is not substae sub second. But do t do that again. Two, 20, 20, eh. To 20 milly seconds. The fourth milly second. Do the math.
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