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Thanks for taking time to reverse engineer how Figma works on background. Wondering if info like saving buffer changes to DynamoDB are published by Figma on a blog or you just inspected this behavior in browser, the same for S3 and postgress?

After all, Figma is an excellent product except the loading time on existing documents 5mb or more, design files, take time to open up reminding me Photoshop 7.0 days.

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> Wondering if info like saving buffer changes to DynamoDB are published by Figma on a blog or you just inspected this behavior in browser, the same for S3 and postgress?

Most of it came from their blog posts (I link to some of their classic technical posts, but I also skimmed all of their eng posts looking for tidbits to fill in the gaps). I have talked with some Figma engineers over the time building Plane.dev to check my understanding, and I did a bit of network sniffing to verify that e.g. the Fig file data is sent over websocket.

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