Why Facebook Messenger’s Performance Improved
How did Facebook tweak the infrastructure behind its Messenger applications to focus on mobile speed and performance? Software engineers Jeremy Fein and Jason Jenks detailed the process in a post on the social network’s engineering blog.
How did Facebook tweak the infrastructure behind its Messenger applications to focus on mobile speed and performance? Software engineers Jeremy Fein and Jason Jenks detailed the process in a post on the social network’s engineering blog.
Fein and Jenks described how Facebook moved from a pull-based protocol to a push-based protocol, as well as how the social network uses Iris to deliver its users a totally ordered queue of messaging updates, adding that the new protocols lower non-media data usage by 40 percent, and the decreased congestion on the network slashed the number of users who experience errors while trying to send messages by 20 percent.
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