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How TikTok short content is delivered through HTTP - Devtooling TikTok

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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What Is the First Bite of the Request?

The total is two point one six second. That includes the t c p handshake, the s s l connection. If they didn't heat the data base to do to the squareis probably thereis million layers of cashes that has the rock information. And you can really interpret this into many layers because any interface before we hit the back end might have actually intercepted the connec and then transmitted it on the backin. So that's why you're in the back. You have to really pay attention to what are you doing in these middle ter layers before your request actually reaches the back.

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