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GitHub Increased Instant Navigation from 4% to 22% by Rethinking Client Side Architecture

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GitHub Increased Instant Navigation from 4% to 22% by Rethinking Client Side Architecture
Summary

GitHub redesigned Issues navigation with a local-first client-side architecture using IndexedDB caching, service workers, and stale-while-revalidate prefetching, boosting instant navigation from 4% to 22%. Latency dropped from 600ms to 70ms at P10 and median from 1200ms to 700ms, reflecting a shift from p99 to distribution quality.

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