What does it really mean to design software for high-performance? Performance is such a generic and misunderstood subject. In this talk the subject of performance will be explored. We will focus on what is means to achieve sufficient response times, throughput, and scalability. We will explore the difference between latency …
Stack Overflow is developed with a hands-on approach, where practical facts always trump theoretical concerns and this allows us to have a unique blend of techniques and approaches to coding. This talk presents Stack Overflow’s usage of application architecture, coding abstractions, continuous deployment, methodology. I will give demos of our …
Especially scale-out systems, but also more traditional, highly available systems need a fault tolerant application design, because the standard fault tolerance mechanisms on infrastructure level are either not available or not sufficient and therefore must be implemented on application level. On the other hand fault tolerance is known as an …
Prezi.com has been built on Python code from the start. That’s about the only thing that has remained constant in Prezi.com’s codebase as it grew. Along the way, we’ve had to solve all sorts of interesting problems. Partly technical, partly organization, all of them had an effect on how we …
The PageSpeed family of tools is designed to help you optimize the performance of your website. PageSpeed Insights products will help you identify performance best practices that can be applied to your site, and PageSpeed optimization tools can help you automate the process.
This talk covers his top ten tips and tricks for squeezing maximum performance out of web applications (PHP or otherwise). Memcached, APC, database query performance, PHP settings you’ve never heard of… nothing will be off limits.
