September 14, 2010

A Faster Web-Not about the Network Anymore

ReadWriteWeb The Velocity conference took place earlier this year - and some of the best and brightest in Web performance assembled in Santa Clara to chart a course of innovation in performance and operations for the next year.

One of the obvious themes this year was mobile, but it was the overarching mission of the conference that struck the truest chord: to take a more holistic view of the performance landscape, the 50,000-foot view, and think about it in a way that accounted for the relative complexity of a given operational environment, one that is now marked by "anywhere access" on a compendium of devices and platforms - mobile or otherwise.

But performance has long been perceived solely as a network issue, and it's because of this narrow focus on the networks that we have gotten to a place where few understand the various layers at which our applications and websites desperately need performance improvements, more..