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I’d actually argue that it’s perhaps great that the abstractions work well enough for someone to not know networking to be productive in web development.
by plandis 7y ago
I’d actually argue that it’s perhaps great that the abstractions work well enough for someone to not know networking to be productive in web development.
- astrange 7y agoYou can be productive, but it produces a lot of bad externalities, like news websites that load 30 trackers and drain the user's phone battery.
- malvosenior 7y agoTo be fair you don’t need to know about the TCP/IP protocol to know loading 30 trackers is a bad idea.
- perfmode 7y ago+1 but flip side: What _do_ you need to know?
- kkarakk 7y agoTest your apps on a device test cloud to see how they work?
- PullJosh 7y agoThat data transfer takes time. Load less and, all else being equal, your site will be faster.
- astrange 7y agoI think you should know about head-of-line blocking in HTTP1, how to fix it in HTTP/2, and maybe to test how much memory all your JavaScripting uses?
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoThis is why computers are 100000x faster but feel no faster or slower with many "webapps"