“As HTTPS becomes more ubiquitous across the web, this feature should really start to gain traction.”

Web performance guru Steve Souders explains how a process that brings design and performance together at the beginning of a project helps deliver a web experience that’s both fast and rich.

Some insights into Stack Overflow’s performance via David Fullerton’s QCon New York talk.

If you wanted to protect your home, would you install an alarm for only one door? Join our OpsCast on July 16 at 2PM (EST) to understand how to use synthetic and RUM monitoring to create a comprehensive monitoring solution and get complete visibility of your performance. In this webinar, you'll learn how synthetic monitoring and RUM provide complete web performance insight, how to create a troubleshooting workflow, and the ramifications of incomplete monitoring.

A look at Pinterest’s path to discovering an optimal configuration for its MySQL cluster including benchmark results and what the configuration looks like in these slides.

If there is no way to reliably predict how long a page load might take, why do so many browsers still use and show the progress bar?

This article describes some of the temptations you’ve probably faced in your web development journey, and why it’s better not to give in to them.

An open source load testing tool where you define user behaviour with Python code, and then ‘swarm your system’ with potentially millions of simultaneous users.

The Executive Director of the jQuery Foundation is interviewed about how the foundation’s systems scale, how its CDN works, and what the future for jQuery is.