1 Articles in the category Performance

There is currently quite a lot of information on the internet about website performance in terms of page load speed. Unfortunately what most of it comes down to is what it known as “Monkey patching” or otherwise hacking on top of out dated technology to achieve a performance gain. Some developers however choose to do things differently, this post will focus on some technology and patterns used to gain a good balance between website performance, usability and scalability. Creating a fast platform has to start in the right place and fortunately for us we had a purpose built modular CMS or Content Management System built from the ground up to facilitate a fast website in a widely used production environment. One of the core principals of the CMS was to never compromise on performance, a principal which was later relaxed for module development due to the core system using so...read more