Build High Performance Web Apps

Below are the slides for a recent techstars session:

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It covers some basic stuff for web performance, scalability and availability, such as:

1. Common architecture pattern for horizontal scalability;
2. How to do load balancing;
3. Cost effective load balancing options;
4. Cloud computing does not solve scalability issue;
5. how to optimize web performance;

A list of free tools available are also mentioned, such as YSlow, RockStar Web Profiler and RockStar Optimizer.