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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a group of geographically distributed servers that work together to deliver online content faster. A CDN stores a cached version of your website in multiple locations all over the world. Once you enable caching (more on that in a minute), there is no noticeable difference. Use caching.

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Creating an Impactful Web Presence: 5 Key Steps for Your Startup SiteĀ 

The Startup Magazine

Leverage browser caching : Caching stores web page resources on local computers, making subsequent visits quicker. Moreover, employing a Content Delivery Network (CDN) can distribute the load, reducing the server’s response time. Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML : This reduces file sizes and load times.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. This is a good summary and very useful data layer scaling approach.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Understands the entire programming stack, hardware (CPU + Memory + Cache + Interrupts + microcode), binary code, assembly, static and dynamic linking, compilation, interpretation, JIT compilation, garbage collection, heap, stack, memory addressing. Knowledge of distributed VCS systems. Software Engineering.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Spray files across cheap disks on your network. Pay less for storage.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. 0 Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400

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Best iPhone Photo App ā€“ Phanfare Photon

BeyondVC

.  As I wrote back in 2004 , Andrew believed in the idea of client software which was network enabled and sought to create an iTunes like environment for photos with smart caching and local manipulation of media with smart synching so albums and photos could be viewed from anywhere. 

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