
How TikTok short content is delivered through HTTP - Devtooling TikTok
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Is the Author of This Particular Page a Rock, the Author Is the Rock?
The whole author object is being returned here, you know, with every item. This makes sense if you're like browsing some sort of the main page a your explore feed. But it doesn't really make sense to return this in the main page itself. So there's a lot of iptomisation that could be happening here, to be honest. Andtis interesting. You can see that th vidiois being diwloted, so that this is basically how ret works. A lengk that gives you content, that gives you leng to more content. R, but here's his interesting part here that could be alecat a further optimization in tectok ends. Sst
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