One of the less discussed, but highly informative and very thought provoking talk during Velocity 2010 was the one about TCP, latency, window sizes and its relation to web performance. The slides to this talk by “John Rauser” can be found here. And thanks to Mike Bailey, there is a video recording as well. Follow [...]

Here are all the slides/PDFs which I’ve come across from the first 2 days at velocity, please let me know if I missed any. Links,  PDF and Docs Apache traffic server – HTTP proxy server on the edge Dont let third parties slow you down Keeping tracking of your performance using slow show Mobile web [...]

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 [...]

Summary from James’ keynote talk at Velocity 2010 Pace of Innovation – Datacenter pace of innovation is increasing.  The high focus on infrastructure innovation is driving down the cost, increasing reliability and reducing resource consumption which ultimate drives down cost. Where does the money go ? 54% on servers, 8% on networking, 21% on power [...]