You can always make your Web site better. I guess I should call that King’s Law since my occasional co-hort Andy King certainly believes it to be true.  To support this belief just this week Andy released an exciting new book published by O’Reilly entitled Web Site Optimization.

Now I am not just plugging for [...]

Everyone knows about the sharp trade-off that exists when using SSL: You get the security of an encrypted connection but you pay for it with a significant performance hit. Servers work much harder, and pages load much slower. SSL processing consumes about 70% of HTTPS transaction time

Database performance tuning tends to be overlooked until that critical moment when a large group of simultaneous users hit your site and it grinds to a crawl. At that point, people start looking for the magic “fast” setting that with a simple adjustment will fix the timeouts and deathly slow response times. Rarely is life [...]