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Re:How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests by Etheryte on Saturday July 01, 2017 @05:42PM (#14679201)
Why would you _want_ a synchronous, blocking script in the first place?
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Re:How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests by kpsychwave on Saturday July 01, 2017 @09:52PM (#14680351)
For conditionally loading other blocking assets in JS.

For example, if IP is in China, local fallback for Google CDN as it will fail.

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Re:How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests by Etheryte on Sunday July 02, 2017 @05:09AM (#14681610)
You can also do all of these things asynchronously, without blocking the whole page.
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Re:How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests by kpsychwave on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @04:28PM (#14705833)
Yes but like all async ops not without expense to the UX.
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