It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. — H.D. Thoreau
Unless you are running a complete brochureware site, chance are, you have some sort of content personalization…
In this day and age, more and more applications leverage external services. So much so, that only about 6% of all sites…
Every type of content was not created equal. Nor should it be served the same way. At a high level, you can separate your…
Loops are generally not great from the performance perspective, but often times it’s relatively easy to pinpoint…
Perhaps the most effective caching mechanism is in-memory cache. Tools like memcached and redis give a great…
The easiest way to ensure that your web requests are going to be cached by front end consumers, such as…
Rules of web application performance
Migration scrips. We’ve all had to write them. They are the background, throwaway scripts that don’t…
One of the biggest performance killers happen to be the non-essential actions that are being…