Steve Souders is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow. In this talk, he presents some of the best practices from his next book, including optimizing CSS selectors, flushing the document early, and discovering why 15% of users don’t get compressed responses.
We all like puzzles and that is what this talk is all about, puzzles, Java, and performance. In this highly interactive talk we will look at a number of small benchmarks with interesting performance characteristics. In working through the puzzle we will discover how and why we’ve gotten the results …
The tenets of Domain-Driven Design are well documented, and its mindshare has expanded massively in recent years, due to the brilliant work of Eric Evans and subsequent authors notably Jimmy Nilsson. However, knowledge on persisting domain models, especially in a performant and scalable way, is much less readily accessible. Lessons …
Nick Zadrozny takes us on a tour of basic website performance optimization, covering 13 optimizations you shouldn’t deploy your site without. He’ll also go over some sample implementations for a typical Rails app, including a demo of how to serve your public assets from Amazon’s new CloudFront CDN. http://sdruby.com/podcast/63
Improvements in Web site performance are similar to improvements in energy or fuel efficiency: We make great progress, yet we end up consuming more. Learn how to balance design and features with the need for speed. This session highlights Yahoo!’s latest research results and performance breakthroughs. Apple’s iPhone has changed …
Browsers are continually upgrading – providing new features from the latest specifications. We’ll look at modern JavaScript and DOM techniques that you can easily drop in to your applications for instant speed-ups.