https://engineering.salesforce.com/how-salesforce-optimizes-performance-in-china-9efad74f0884

During Dreamforce 2017, Jeff Cheng and Rob Mercado gave a talk entitled Performance Optimization: Greater China Region and Beyond (see the full talk, and refer to the slides). In this post, we cover the portion of that talk relating to the China-specific performance issues and mitigations.

Living up to the reputation of delivering the world’s most trusted enterprise cloud in the Greater China region is a unique challenge. Along with the usual characteristics that can slow down any org, such as its design, how customers are using it, and the speed of the open internet, China’s infrastructure includes The Great Firewall (content is regulated at the national level) and in-country bandwidth congestion.