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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by hanniabu on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:27PM (#24055179)
> This narrative has been going hard for the last 6~7 years. For me, it's difficult to pinpoint all the causes of this.

I always thought it came with the serverless meme. All those services used to do that cost money, so the decision was made in a lot of places to put the work on the client. New people to the industry maybe haven't connected the dots and think it's for scale when it's really for costs.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by torgian on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @10:08PM (#24056591)
I think that’s certainly influenced this trend. Make the client side do all the hard work and server costs go down. I’m not sure how much that cost is, but I’m guessing it could be substantial.
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