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Kill the Fail Whale: Scale Your Site
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- Slow pages can kill a website; high-performance involves more than big servers. Scalability ensures that your site can grow to meet demand, while performance ensures the best possible user experience. Glen Campbell & Brian Rountree have a wealth of experience with some of the highest-trafficked sites on the web: Yahoo! News and Finance, along with many others.
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- Why is performance important for keeping and retaining users?
- What's the difference between server-side and client-side performance?
- Which is more important? Server performance or client performance?
- Why are rounded corners bad?
- What can I do to eliminate unnecessary HTTP requests?
- Why is my database the bottleneck?
- What are the best ways to crash my site? and how can I avoid them?
- What is scalability?
- What is sudden success perilous for a small website?
- What is the easiest thing I can do to improve my site's performance?
- Level:
- Advanced
- Category:
- Web / Interface Design
- Type:
- Dual
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
Developed for SXSW by Lindsey Simon