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This linked article is good: the Performance Golden Rule http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-golden-rule/ http://www.stevesouders.com/bl

This linked article is good: the Performance Golden Rule http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-golden-rule/ http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-... (submitted days ago but got no traction) For years we have been told that we will have to wait on the database so it doesn't matter how fast your implementation language is... Well it's half true, depending on what you consider your implementation language: server side or client side. Front end performance matters just as much (or by this article) more than "backend."

pragmatic 15y ago
How does this (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn-fast-without-using-much-client-side-ui http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to...) get to be number one, while this http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-golden-rule/ http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-... goes nowhere? Are we upvoting simply by name recognition? http://stevesouders.com/about.php http://stevesouders.com/about.php He only wrote the book on high performance web sites... http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/dp/0596529309 http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/d...
- joshuacc 15y ago
  It's partly name recognition and partly novelty. The 37signals approach is unusual, while most competent front-end developers are already aware of the principles in Souders' post.
- awj 15y ago
  Sounders post is 5% halfheartedly evangelizing (maybe not-so) common knowledge and 95% reiterating his point about the split between frontend/backend time on fulfilling a request. After reading it I'm pretty sure it could eliminate all but the last graph and be just as valuable at 1/4 the length. That he did a rather comprehensive evaluation is commendable, but I think the post loses track of its main point in favor of sailing the sea of data that was collected.

pragmatic 15y ago

How does this (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn-fast-without-using-much-client-side-ui http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to...) get to be number one, while this http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-golden-rule/ http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-... goes nowhere? Are we upvoting simply by name recognition? http://stevesouders.com/about.php http://stevesouders.com/about.php He only wrote the book on high performance web sites... http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/dp/0596529309 http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/d...

joshuacc 15y ago
It's partly name recognition and partly novelty. The 37signals approach is unusual, while most competent front-end developers are already aware of the principles in Souders' post.
awj 15y ago
Sounders post is 5% halfheartedly evangelizing (maybe not-so) common knowledge and 95% reiterating his point about the split between frontend/backend time on fulfilling a request. After reading it I'm pretty sure it could eliminate all but the last graph and be just as valuable at 1/4 the length. That he did a rather comprehensive evaluation is commendable, but I think the post loses track of its main point in favor of sailing the sea of data that was collected.