Application Development

Caching: Understating the scope

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. — H.D. Thoreau

Caching: File system

Perhaps the most effective caching mechanism is in-memory cache. Tools like memcached and redis give a great…

Caching: Cache-Control header

The easiest way to ensure that your web requests are going to be cached by front end consumers, such as…

Performance mantras

Rules of web application performance

Performance != Scalability