2008
Jiffy Firefox Extension - Documentation
by nhoizey
The Jiffy Firefox Extension adds an additional panel to Firebug that provides a visual view of the Javascript time measurements captured by Jiffy-Web
Performance web » Archive du blog » JSON ?
by nhoizey
Contrairement à une idée reçue assez répandue, l'usage de JSON à la place de XML pour optimiser les performances d'Ajax n'est peut-être pas si pertinent que ça...
How To Optimize Your Site With HTTP Caching | BetterExplained
by nhoizey & 2 others
Caching is a great example of the ubiquitous time-space tradeoff in programming. You can save time by using space to store results. Fewer downloads means a faster, happier site.
Google Code Blog: How we improved performance on Google Code
by nhoizey
If you're a frequent visitor to code.google.com for product updates and reference materials for Google APIs you're working with, you might have noticed that the page loading time (or page rendering time depending on how you see it) has reduced in varying
Comment bien gérer la montée en charge d’une application web ? | Simple Entrepreneur
by nhoizey & 2 others
Voici quelques pistes qui seront particulièrement utiles à ceux qui développent une application dans un environnement LAMP (Linux, Apache, Php et MySql) ou RoR (Ruby On Rails). Il s’agit en fait des retours d’expérience de sites comme Flickr, Digg
Mac Virtualization Benchmarking
by nhoizey
Parallels Desktop est plus rapide que VMWare Fusion avec Windows XP, mais plus lent avec Windows Vista. Qui voudrait de Vista de toute façon ? ;-)
2007
Database parallelism choices greatly impact scalability - The Database Column
by nhoizey & 1 other
Large databases require the use of parallel computing resources to get good performance. There are several fundamentally different parallel architectures in use today
Ajaxian » TIBCO GI Performance Profiler
by nhoizey
TIBCO has released a new open source Ajax Performance Profiler that aims to answer the questions: How long did it take that service to respond? ...did it take for that component to render? ...that data to parse? ...for that function to execute?
High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
by nhoizey & 5 others
High Scalability was started to help build successful scalable websites. It tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence
htaccess Caching
by nhoizey & 2 others
This article shows 2 awesome ways to implement caching on your website using Apache .htaccess (httpd.conf) files on the Apache Web Server. Both methods are extremely simple to set up and will dramatically speed up your site!
Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Applications
by nhoizey & 2 others
Advantages of using client-side load balancing over server-side load balancing? A special load-balancing device is unnecessary—there is no need to configure load-balancing hardware, or make sure the backup functions the same as the primary load balancer
Nati Shalom's Blog: Why most large-scale Web sites are not written in Java
by nhoizey
The application stack of these Web applications is very different from the stack that mission-critical applications in the financial world are built with.
Ajaxian » CSS Sprite Generator Released
by nhoizey
CSS Sprite is a single image file which contains several graphics. Using CSS background positions it’s possible to display any one of the graphics. By using a sprite you save on multiple http requests which helps speed up the rendering of your page.
WSGI makes us faster, simpler, nicer! « DevjaVu Blog
by nhoizey
With mod_php you can assume that if Apache is up, the app is up. [...] mod_wsgi, boasted faster performance than mod_python, and was easier to configure. I realized Trac had WSGI support. Pages are loading almost twice as fast! Our setup is simpler too.
jQuery: » jQuery 1.1.4: Faster, More Tests, Ready for 1.2
by nhoizey
What would a release be without some speed improvements? $(”#id”) improved by 4919% on Firefox 2!
Julien Lecomte’s Blog » Gzip Your Minified JavaScript Files
by nhoizey & 1 other
For optimal performance, gzip your JavaScript code, and stay away from “advanced” JavaScript compression schemes that look attractive on paper, but end up degrading the performance of your site.
SlickSpeed Selectors Test
by nhoizey & 7 others
Des tests de performances automatisés des principales librairie Javascript : Prototype, jQuery, MooTools, ext, cssQuery, dojo query
APAC Hoster Evangelist : At last, Windows-optimized PHP 5.2.1 has been released!
by nhoizey (via)
This release contains many fixes Zend has contributed to improve the performance of the PHP scripting engine on Windows as part of our collaboration effort to make PHP rock on Windows / IIS.
2005
There and Back Again » Blog Archive » Improving JPSpan page load performance
by nhoizey & 1 other (via)
If you use JPSpan to augment a normal website you may have noticed that your page loads now take quite a bit longer. The reason for this is loading the JPSpan client javascript code, its generated on each load and so it can’t be cached on the client.
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