Building Mobile-First Infrastructure for Messenger - Facebook Engineering
Messages have been part of Facebook for many years, beginning as direct messaging similar to email (available in your inbox the next time you visited the site) and then eventually evolving into a real-time messaging platform that provides access to your messages on a number of mobile apps or in a browser. But until recently [...]Read More...
9 Oct 2014 ... As a result, we created a new Messenger sync protocol that decreased non- media data usage by 40% and developed a new service called Iris ...