You may have heard a joke that the Internet is a series of tubes. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about how we get a cool, refreshing stream of Airbnb.com bytes into your browser as quickly as…

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Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming. How HTTP Streaming can improve page performance and how Airbnb enabled it on an existing codebase. In the buffered strategy, everything happens sequentially - our servers first generate the entire response into a buffer. We break the response into chunks, which are sent as soon as they are ready.