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For all the improvements pioneered by Marko, why is eBay still so slow (compared to equivalent ecommerce sites in Next.js and similar)?
by melony 4y ago
For all the improvements pioneered by Marko, why is eBay still so slow (compared to equivalent ecommerce sites in Next.js and similar)?
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI’m not sure why you’re asking me, but I just did a quick “how slow does eBay feel” on my really spotty mobile connection and it didn’t feel slow at all. Faster than HN, which is usually my fast baseline that responds even when I’m not coaxing my network settings.
- pier25 4y agoMy guess, the bottleneck is in the data layer. Honestly it's unfair to compare a small e-commerce site made with Next to one of the biggest websites on the internet. If Ebay was made with Next it would probably be much slower. React is the slowest at SSR of the modern frameworks. Amazon considered using it but it was too slow for them so they keep using Java + sprinkled JS.