Facebook Makes Their Web Pages Faster

When you have a website such as Facebook, with over 400 million users interacting with each other in clusters of mini social networks, improving the performance of webpages, from the point of view of users, becomes a very complex problem. Throw in the fact that Facebook now offers a real-time stream and there’s even more complexity. Still, two Facebook engineers have been instrumental in making the site twice as fast as it was six months ago, using a new internal system called BigPipe.