PUBLIC MARKS from ghis with tag performance

Bluebird is a full featured promise library with unmatched performance.

"Web development on mobile devices is especially challenging. The debuggers and profilers we use on the desktop aren't available. Bookmarklets are a good alternative. They're lightweight and work on most browsers - even mobile browsers. But installing bookmarklets in mobile browsers is a pain. You could try to find all the good bookmarklets out there and install them one by one. Or... Just install the Mobile Perf bookmarklet!"

The HEAD section is the worst place to load scripts. It's painfully slow. The more and the bigger the worse it gets. Move scrips to the bottom and you run into dependency issues and you cannot safely use HTML5 and CSS3. Enter Head JS. A compact solution to these universal issues.

Sprites generator. Integrates with SASS to generate the corresponding CSS code.

Rules for making your website faster. Reducing the number of HTTP requests is the most important.

Interesting use of MySQL as a NoSQL database, for speed reasons.

Forcing gzip with an iframe testing the browser support and a cookie for future use of gzip compression.

Install PHP-FPM on Ubuntu. Good to run with nginx.

Quelques conseils pour optimiser les performances des applis Django : éviter les requêtes multiples, mettre les templates en cache, différer certaines actions (files)...

Some rules for rendering efficiently CSS : ID, class and then universal, plus other tips

nginx + php + apc is faster than mod_php apache mode. Here is how to install and setup it up.

Complement Google Chrome’s developer tools with extensions, to make web development faster and more efficient. Edit HTML, test your pages on various screen resolutions, improve the performance of your apps and more -- all directly from the browser.

O'Reilly Radar's James Turner conducted a very informative interview with Joe Stump, current CTO of SimpleGeo and former lead architect at Digg, in which Joe makes some of his usually insightful comments on his experience using Cassandra vs MySQL.

How to faster a site written in PHP without changing the code.