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How Static Resources (CSS, JS) are Served at Facebook.com?
This article talks about techniques used at Facebook.com to serve the static resources such as CSS, JS and Images files when someone accesses Facebook.com. If you are one of the developer at Facebook and worked on related modules, and disagree with one or more aspects of this article, please drop a message and I shall change the same appropriately. The article is aimed to present a perspective on how to handle the web static resources, based on how it is handled at facebook.com. Thank you for reading it further. Back in February 2004? Well, like most other startups, facebook got launched in February 2004 with usual manners of serving CSS & JS …
I found it very helpful. However the differences are not too understandable for me