Want to scale a system which can handle over 300 million monthly users, approximately half of which are logging in daily? It’s not an easy task however Facebook has managed to pull off an impressive feat but as many users are noticing: not everything is working as it should. The primary problems exist for the minority, yet rapidly growing population, of hyper-connected individuals who have thousands of contacts. So what’s going wrong?

Facebook Scales Horizontally
Facebook has been the most effective platform so far for attracting a large volume of users on a global scale. In an interview with Fast…

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The unwelcome experience of having an IE unable to browse problem can pop up seemingly out of the blue, and if like most people you have no idea where and how to fix it, no problem – you’ve come to the right place. Just read the next few paragraphs, and it will soon be obvious that you or anyone else can straighten out this and other pc troubles in just a few clicks.
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Last night we received a number of emails about a new version of Facebook that a number of users were “accidentally” invited to. Dubbed “Facebook Lite”, the service is a faster loading version of Facebook, meant to make it easier to digest your feed and consume basic Facebook applications. While there is no word on whether or not Facebook will enable platform applications, it’s clear that Facebook wants to make the site easier to use for those that don’t have fast connections.

Testing of the service is currently taking place in India and other areas of the world which don’t…

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We all know that script is blocking element, meaning no content will be rendered untill script block is parsed and executed or downloaded then parsed and then executed in case of externale script.
And we were told endless times that the best practice is to load scripts at the end of web page. It’s true.
We also have document.ready events thanks to numerous javascript frameworks that gives us opportunity to perform most of our JS actions when document is ready to be manipulated. But there are cases when you do need JS blocking features.

Many ad serving systems work using…

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