Goal

Persona needs to be fast enough to be usable on slow Internet connections like dialup and 2G

Factors to consider

• high latency (i.e. minimize number of connections, reuse them)
• low bandwidth (i.e. minimize size of resources)
• slow DNS resolution (i.e. minimize number of domains to lookup)

Working pad

https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/make-us-fast

Testing

To deploy an awsbox with rate limiting:

1. Get this branch:

git remote add francois git://github.com/fmarier/browserid.git
git checkout -t francois/perslona

2. Deploy to AWS:

scripts/deploy.js deploy perslona-yourname -t m1.small

3. Log into that box as the ec2-user and turn on throttling:

ssh ec2-user@perslona-yourname.personatest.org
sudo /home/app/code/scripts/throttle dialup lossy

4. Destroy the instance when you're done:

scripts/deploys.js destroy perslona-yourname

Specific bugs

• BrowserID
• 123done