Jos

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Yesterday I was reading Zakas’ Performance on the Yahoo! Homepage slideshare presentation , and I got very surprised when I saw that Yahoo had realised that two of the wide accepted tips for improving website performance had not work so well for them. 1) Put scripts at the bottom (slide 37) Or at least that is what Yahoo recommends , and it contributes as one of the indicators to calculate YSlow score.

Performance 130

Performance Website Performance Website Testing 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Three seconds does not always equal three seconds. Our perception of time is greatly skewed by a variety of seemingly unrelated factors, making it easy for us to perceive 3 seconds as 5 seconds, or as 1 second. Since ultimately it is how fast the user thinks our site is that matters, regardless what the stats say, we need to be very aware of these extraneous factors that influence their perception.

Speed 45

Speed Tuning Design Performance 45

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Like many thousands of other people, I was forced to stay in London for an extra few days because weather-related factors caused Heathrow and other UK airports to close. Nearly a week after it began, thousands remain stranded. Most analyses of why this happened have looked at how supply-side factors such as additional snowplows or seat capacity on contract could lessen the impact of an event like this.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Systems 40

Jos

DECEMBER 11, 2010

It’s been several weeks since I wrote a tutorial to implement BigPipe using C# and ASP.Net MVC. And I have just read a PDF from a presentation at Velocity China in which Changhao Jiang, from Facebook, explains some details about Bigpipe, as well as other techniques they use to improve Time to interact (both real and perceived), as well as data savings.

C++ 130

C++ Code Performance 130

Jos

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Yesterday I was reading Zakas’ Performance on the Yahoo! Homepage slideshare presentation , and I got very surprised when I saw that Yahoo had realised that two of the wide accepted tips for improving website performance had not work so well for them. 1) Put scripts at the bottom (slide 37) Or at least that is what Yahoo recommends , and it contributes as one of the indicators to calculate YSlow score.

Performance 100

Performance Website Performance Website Testing 100

Jos

DECEMBER 11, 2010

It’s been several weeks since I wrote a tutorial to implement BigPipe using C# and ASP.Net MVC. And I have just read a PDF from a presentation at Velocity China in which Changhao Jiang, from Facebook, explains some details about Bigpipe, as well as other techniques they use to improve Time to interact (both real and perceived), as well as data savings.

C++ 100

C++ Code Performance 100

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Jeremy Keith recently wrote a post about some of the false dichotomies in web development. When faced with two options, we are often presented with a solution that paints one option black and one white as if there was no middle ground. I’ve attempted to write a post along a similar lines many times, though to be perfectly honest, none of my drafts painted the scene quite as well as Jeremy did: In the world of web development, there are many choices that are commonly presented as true or fa

Education 40

Education Best Practices Speed Design 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 7, 2010

So technically the site has been live for a month or so now, but since we just finalized our speaker lineup, I thought now would be a good time to “announce” Breaking Development 2011 —a conference I’m helping to organize in Dallas, TX on April 11-12th. Breaking Development is a two day conference dedicated to mobile web design and development. I’m incredibly proud of the speakers we were able bring on board—with presenters like Peter-Paul Koch , Luke Wroblewski , Jonathan Snook , Nate Koechley

Development 40

Development Mobile Design Availability 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Big Just Got Bigger - 5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 09 December 2010 11:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, Amazon S3 announced a new breakthrough in supporting customers with large files by increasing the maximum supported object size from 5 gigabytes to 5 terabytes.

AWS 82

AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 82