InfoQ Homepage Performance Content on InfoQ
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Using Node.js to Improve the Performance of Mobile Apps and Mobile Web
Tom Hughes-Croucher discusses increasing the performance of web applications and websites by using Node.js’ event-driven approach.
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Executing Queries on a Sharded Database
Neha Narula provides advice on choosing a data store for a web applications and executing distributed queries.
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JavaScript Performance Patterns
Stoyan Stefanov explains how to reason about and to address performance issues in JavaScript applications.
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Actionable Metrics - Enabling Decision-Making in Netflix’s Decentralized Environment
Roy Rapoport discusses how Netflix uses metrics to monitor and manage their operating environment along with some notes about their event management system.
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Managing and Monitoring Spring Integration Applications
Gary P Russell shows an application used for managing and monitoring apps built with Spring Integration, and overviews the JMX support provided by Spring Integration.
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Visual Interfaces in ClojureScript
Kevin Lynagh provides the rationale behind visual interfaces, and presents a sample example written in ClojureScript.
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Caching Hypermedia APIs
Tim Stokes discusses various URI caching strategies providing real life examples relying on some of the natural behaviors that are built into the HTTP 1.1 protocol.
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Scaling Scalability: Evolving Twitter Analytics
Dmitriy Ryaboy shares some of the lessons learned scaling Twitter’s analytics infrastructure: Data loves a schema, Make data sources discoverable, and Make costs visible.
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Designing Composite Services Using BPMN 2.0 as a Visual Programming Language
Lloyd Dugan discusses using the BPMN visual programming language for designing composite services and service orchestration.
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Building High Performing Agile Teams
Naveed Khawaja and Carl Bruiners introduce various Agile principles and practices and conduct a hands-on practice session meant to explain how to build a performing team.
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Big Data Problems in Monitoring at eBay
Bhaven Avalani and Yuri Finklestein discuss 4 aspects encountered at eBay when dealing with monitoring data: reduction of data entropy, robust data distribution, metric extraction, efficient storage.
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Rewriting GitHub Pages with Riak and Webmachine
Jesse Newland discusses how GitHub pages were re-written with Erlang, Riak and Webmachine in order to improve their performance.