David Wei

David Wei
Research Scientist, Facebook Inc.

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Xiaoliang “David” Wei is a research scientist at Facebook, where he works on front-end performance. He focuses on user latency measurement, end user latency optimization, and best practices for maintaining long-term web performance. Prior to Facebook, David worked on network simulation, TCP enhancement, QoS, and peer-to-peer file sharing systems at Google and two startups. David holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, China, and a PhD in computer science from Caltech, where he co-invented FastTCP, a new Internet congestion control algorithm that led to the startup FastSoft Inc.

Sessions

3:40pm Wednesday, 06/24/2009
Frontend Performance Engineering in Facebook
Web Performance
 Location: Regency 1
David Wei (Facebook Inc.), Changhao Jiang (Facebook Inc.)
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Facebook integrates features and applications deeply into each page. Such deep integration presents both opportunities and challenges to the frontend performance engineering. In this talk, we discuss some of our work on improving and maintaining frontend performance for web pages that contain a mix of many fast-evolving features. Read more.
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