As affects web apps, some of this is a conscious choice by network designers. First, click on your profile on Hacker News and turn on Showdead. You can then read this thread and my comment in it:
While the poster wasn't a web engineer specifically (or didn't say it) so much of the web architecture isn't built for front-loading payloads. But instead, on eventually getting there, through the magic of TCP/IP and letting users wait for a few dozen seconds as pages load.
I disagree with it and think these engineers are wrong and make the wrong decisions (optimize for the wrong things) and that this makes everyone poorer-off.
Thanks for listening. (Happy to discuss any replies here.)
As affects web apps, some of this is a conscious choice by network designers. First, click on your profile on Hacker News and turn on Showdead. You can then read this thread and my comment in it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13597673
While the poster wasn't a web engineer specifically (or didn't say it) so much of the web architecture isn't built for front-loading payloads. But instead, on eventually getting there, through the magic of TCP/IP and letting users wait for a few dozen seconds as pages load.
I disagree with it and think these engineers are wrong and make the wrong decisions (optimize for the wrong things) and that this makes everyone poorer-off.
Thanks for listening. (Happy to discuss any replies here.)