Service workers at scale with Facebook and Flipkart - Google I/O 2016
Owen Campbell-Moore, Aditya Punjani and Nate Schloss on Service workers at scale with Facebook and Flipkart
Service workers provide the technical foundation for Progressive Web Apps and unlock the ability to build rich app-like experiences on the web. Hear Facebook and Flipkart talk about how they are taking advantage of this new primitive and seeing real business impact by implementing offline features, lightning performance and push notifications on their web properties. This talk covers architectural overviews of what they built, the impact the saw, and real world advice about using service workers in production at web scale.
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