Resolving JS Promises Transparently
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We finally have support for promises in all modern browsers. They give us a nice abstraction to escape callback hell.
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Network Latency As a Service
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A few years ago I worked on an internal management application. One of the mysteries we faced was that it was painfully slow. A page load could take up to 8 seconds. But when we looked at the problem at our local development machines pages loaded within 2 seconds. Not great but a lot better.
So I profiled the app looking for something that might cost more in production. After a while about 600 calls to memcached caught my eye.