This is a summary of the talk by Arvind Jain, Michael Kleber from Google at velocityconf about how to write widgets using same domain iframe using document.write. Speed improvements of over 90% in loading widgets with this change. Web is slow Avg page load time 4.9s 44 resources, 7 dns requests, 320kb Lot of 3rd [...]

From Urs’ talk at the velocity2010 conference [ More info : Google, datacenterknowledge ] Average web page – 320kb, 44 resources, 7 dns lookups, doesn’t compress 3rd of its content Aiming for 100ms page load times for chrome Chrome: HTML5, V8 JS engine, DNS prefetching, VP8 codec, opensource, spurs competition TCP improvements Fast start (higher [...]

This talk by Sean and Alistair is one of the talks I couldn’t attend today due to conflicts, but I’m glad the slides are already up. Performance measurement is often the starting point for most web applications and that can’t be done without understanding what goes on between the browser and the server. Metrics 101 [...]

Jonathan Ellis’ started up a storm when he posted an entry about CouchDB about 6 months ago. He questioned some of CouchDB’s claims and made an attempt to warn users who don’t understand practical issues around CoughDB very well. After reading his post and some comments, it looked like he was specifically concerned about CouchDB’s [...]