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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

Conversely, a low-performance application might have an architectural bottleneck through which many request types flow (e.g., a single-threaded search engine). Performs modestly complex calculations without requiring complex architecture. Generally respecting the value of users’ time.

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How to Conduct a Technical SEO Audit

ConversionXL

This makes website architecture an important technical SEO factor. As well as prioritizing key pages in your site architecture, an audit helps convince Google of a page’s importance by: . The pages on your website can only be indexed if search engines can crawl them. In other words, where the page sits on your site.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. Support multiple sharding schemes. Easy to understand.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. In fact, you will likely need to hire new consultants when you get there.

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

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Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. This team is currently looking for an additional engineer. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. 0 Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400 at 2:41 PM.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

Youll need to think about JavaScript architecture. Likely you are caching assets, so youll need to break that cache on assets that change and not break it on assets that dont. Cache as much as you can both on server and client. Think about CSS architecture. Deployment itself is an entire big topic. Need a guide?

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An In-Depth Guide to Technical SEO

ConversionXL

But search engine optimization strategies will only take you so far. Technical SEO is the process of making sure your website meets the technical requirements of search engines in order to improve organic rankings. The key elements of technical SEO include: Crawling Indexing Rendering Site architecture. Website architectures.