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At a previous company we periodically flipped a feature switch on our dogfood builds that would throttle all network requests to simulate speeds in developing countries with slower cell networks, and it was really cool to see what stuff worked and what was awful when, for example, pictures could barely load or assets wouldn't show up.


You mean Facebook? I know Facebook used to do this for a while


Pretty much every big enough company does it.




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