Videos tagged with HTTP

Today's newspaper finds few buyers tomorrow and an HTTP response arriving seconds after the request finds few readers. Getting the message efficiently delivered is an entirely different job than getting it written in the first place. This talk is about the thoughts behind and inspirations for the Varnish HTTP accelerator, which have set new standards for performance, flexibility and price in HT...

Summary Ian Robinson considers that programming for the web requires a different architectural approach than for applications: clients are interested only in URIs, clients are responsible for the integrity of a sequence of requests, and one should implement application protocols as protocol resources , not domain resources. Bio Ian Robinson (http://iansrobinson.com) is a Principal Consultant wi...

Summary Ilya Grigorik discusses his company's PostRank algorithm for tracking reader engagement with content. Also: his experience scaling MySQL, Tokyo Cabinet, Ruby HTTP libs, Solr, Amazon EC2 and more. Bio Ilya Grigorik is the founder of AideRSS – a real-time social media engagement monitoring and analytics platform. He has been wrangling with Ruby and cloud computing for over four years, try...

Google I/O 2009 - Performance Tips for Geo API MashupsPamela Fox, Marcelo Camelo, Sasha Aickin-- Contents --0:10 - Performance Tips Intro0:50 - Why Performance Matters1:42 - Loading the Javascript API11:15 - Loading Many Markers14:02 - Redfin's SuperMarker19:40 - Too Many Dom Nodes24:10 - View-Only Visualization26:31 - Tiny Clickable Markers30:20 - Rendering Large Polys31:00 - Lightweight Poly3...

Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow. In this talk, he presents some of the best practices from his next book, including optimizing CSS selectors, flushing the document early, and discovering why 15% of users don't get compressed responses.Steve Souders

Live on the main stage: the latest tools you need to analyze websites, including AOL PageTest, HttpWatch, YSlow 2.0, and Visual Round Trip Analyzer. AOL PageTest – Eric Goldsmith (AOL, LLC) AOL PageTest was introduced at Velocity 2008. This presentation provides an introduction for new users, as well as an update on new features for existing users. Both ...

Enabling gzip compression on your webserver is one of the easiest and highest impact ways to speed up your site. However, even when this is done, up to 15% of your visitors will still not receive compressed responses. This session will cover why this problem occurs and what you can do about it. Tony Gentilcore Google Tony Gentilcore is a Software Engineer at Google working on the Websearch Infr...

Summary In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2009, Ian Robinson and Jim Webber talk to Stefan Tilkov about the Web as a platform for integration, the usefulness of various degrees of RESTful HTTP and the benefits of REST in theory and practice. Bio Ian Robinson is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he specializes in the design and delivery of service-oriented and distributed ...

Summary In this session I'll discuss how a large telecommunications company has developed RESTful and Web-friendly services side-by-side with more traditional WS-* services. Using Atom, AtomPub, caching, URI templates and microformats, the company has addressed a wide range of challenges, from standard integration tasks such as exposing legacy data to custom and vendor applications and services...

Summary Until recently, HTTP was used for browsers to GET and POST HTML and a handful of other formats to and from Web servers, and it worked well. Recently, however, people have been finding more and more to do with it -- and not just because it can get through the firewall. This talk will take a hard look at where HTTP is today, and what implementations are doing well (and not so well). We'll...