Practical Performance - Make it go fast!
All developers, managers and users agree applications should be very fast. Getting an application to go fast can be tricky. There are a lot of different ways to speed up different parts of an application. Which should you use? Which will give you the most bang for the buck? Which are a waste of time?
In this session, we'll look at practical ways to figure out why your application is slow and what you can do about it.
- Session Caching vs. In Process vs. Out of Process caching
- What is Write Through Caching?
- Bottleneck assessment
- Front Caches like Varnish and Squid
- When to use/avoid memcached
- When to use/avoid ehCache
- Practical experiences helping large scale weather stations and telethon web applications scale
