When AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) was first announced it was right inline with Google’s long standing project to make the web faster. Nothing seemingly out of the ordinary. Then I listened to a great interview on This Week in Google with Richard Gingras, Head of News at Google, that
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We are serving dynamic (PHP) websites and their assets (JS/CSS/images/videos/binary downloads) via the same apache hosts. The static files are only being used as origins for CDN services used to distribute those files. Yet, in the current development-deploy pipeline, these files are checked into the same
General Discussion
Hey guys, There is a renewed push at my organization to deploy vmware...everywhere. I am rather excited as I know we have a lot of waste when it comes to resources. What has pricked my ears up however, is the notion of using this technology in our very busy
web 2.0
Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In his new book Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers , Steve Souders, web
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Scalability Perspectives is a series of posts that highlights the ideas that will shape the next decade of IT architecture. Each post is dedicated to a thought leader of the information age and his vision of the future. Be warned though – the journey into the minds and perspectives of these
web 2.0
With more users interacting, working, purchasing, and communicating over the network than ever before, Web 2.0 infrastructure is taking center stage in many organizations. Demand is rising, and companies are looking for ways to tackle the performance and scalability needs placed on Web infrastructure without raising IT operational expenses.
Scalability
It is fairly obvious that web site performance can be increased by making the code run faster and optimising the response time. But that only scales up to a point. To really take our web sites to the next level, we need to look at the performance problem from a
Scalability
The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. These best practices have proven to reduce response times of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. They focus on the front-end, for example, why it's bad to use "@import" for including stylesheets
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Hi, Some of the articles of the site claims profiling is essential. Is there any established approach to profiling WEB apps? Or it too much depends on technologies used?