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Ali Alabbas

Ali Alabbas is a PM on the Microsoft Edge web platform team. He works on service workers, browser storage, and networking. He is a contributor at the W3C and an editor on the Indexed Database spec.

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Server to Client

Kicking off the first installment in our "From URL to Interactive" series, Ali Alabbas takes us through the journey of how our code makes it to the browser. In "Server to Client", he discusses how server connections are made, caching, and how service workers factor into the request and response process. You don't want to miss this master class from a networking expert; grasping this aspect of how things run under the browser hood is essential to understanding performance.