Performance

Right Side Up Development

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Traditional Web development frameworks tightly couple the user interface (UI) and the server. This characteristic has two significant implications: prototyping is difficult and development is server-focused. The emergence and widespread adoption of AJAX has triggered a foundational change in Web application development.

Slow Cool Ain't Cool

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) combine proven technologies including JavaScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), dynamic HTML (DHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM) to enable the delivery of interactive Web applications. AJAX-based Web applications no longer have to reprocess and resend the entire Web page to the end user’s browser every time anything changes on the page.

Fast Scalable AJAX Apps

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:00:00 EDT

Successful AJAX-based applications provide a better end-user experience than traditional Web sites. Fast performance is absolutely essential to deliver on this potential. The large number of technologies and the additional complexity that AJAX adds to the mix creates significant headaches in tracking down performance bottlenecks and related issues.