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Facebook made its engineers spend an hour every Tuesday on a simulated 2G connection so they would feel what most of their users feel. The lesson is simple and worth stealing: you cannot design for a slow network you never experience. Read it, then make throttled testing a habit on your own team.
Building for emerging markets: the story behind 2G Tuesdays
From Engineering at Meta by Meta Engineering Short read
- You build better when you regularly use your product on a bad connection
- On 2G a single page can take a minute or more to load
- Make slow network testing a routine, not a one off before launch
