Steve Souders of Yahoo! gives a talk on the important steps to take for ‘High Performance Websites.’ What I found interesting is that he follows a different perspective than most people when it comes to high performance websites. His research shows that the largest amount of improvement you can make is in the actual frontend loading of the page. Which is to say, what it takes to get your web app displayed in the client’s browser.
He basically outlines the 14 rules used in the YSlow browser extension and why they’re important. An interesting video if you’re interested in making your web applications run faster.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1040890
An interesting talk which takes a different line of thinking than backend improvements for high performance & scalability. I’m about halfway through Theo Schlossnagle’s book on Scalable Internet Architectures. If I ever finish that book I’ll try and post a review of the interesting points.
