Building content for billions

Have big international ambitions for your business? Even if you’re just starting out, there’s a lot you can do now to set your content up to support global users and commerce when you’re ready. Today’s blog post (http://goo.gl/yItDd4) will walk you through the full list, but to get you started, here’s a tip on building content for billions of users:

Design to localize (eventually). On Android, building text-holding elements with more space than necessary for your language will save time as you expand to new languages. On the Web, plan to use a single language for content and navigation, and keep content for each language on separate URLs. Setting up your architecture to support this now will save you re-working later.

This is the first of five posts we’re sharing on how to build Android and Web products for billions of users. Check out our full set of resources and tips at developers.google.com/billions.

Spot problems before you publish your Android app with #Firebase Test Lab. You don’t have to write a single line of code to get started. https://goo.gl/uf95Dr

"High Performance Browser Networking" has a new home @ https://hpbn.co.

Chapter updates...
- New "Building Blocks of TCP"
- New "Transport Layer Security (TLS)"
- New "HTTP/2" chapter

Also (drumroll), now with 100% more ServiceWorker under the hood! Which means you can access all the perf best practices {on,off}line.. anywhere and anytime you want! \o/