Sergey Chernyshev talks about caching in web applications, importance of cache, best practices and how to approach cache planning. He covers caching in general sense and goуы into detail about HTTP caching and how to control it. Sergey talks about cache invalidation - the biggest problem in caching and describes different ways to address it for browser caches.
Marcus Westin @marcuswestin of Meebo talks about learnings from speeding up Meebo bar December 13, 2010 @ New York Web Performance Meetup If the Meebo Bar is slow, hundreds of unforgiving partner websites and hundred of millions of users are affected. However, time spent on optimization is time away from feature development, and if we fall short on feature parity we lose market share to our competitors. As a result, it is crucial that we make good decisions about what and when to optimize. “Bu...
Joshua Bixby (@JoshuaBixby), President of Strangeloop Networks and author of Web Performance Today blog talks about Web Performance Automation.
On September 15th, 2010 Philip Tellis (@bluesmoon) spoke at New York Web Performance Meetup Group about Boomerang. Boomerang is a piece of JavaScript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end user's point of view. It has the ability to send this data back to your server for further analysis. With boomerang, you find out exactly how fast your users think your site is. This is an excellent example of RUM (real user monitoring) that allows sit...