Performance: Part II Address Scalability Before Its Too Late

As your product and user base grows you want to ensure that your customers both old and new have a good user experience. You want their experience to improve and not stagnate or diminish over time; scalability is another key element to address to ensure the success of your website. Scalability is defined as the capacity to keep pace with changes and growth.

Maintaining

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Performance: Part I Develop a Monitoring Scheme

carmel1.jpg Two years ago Aaron Patzer was frustrated with Quicken and Money, because setting up the service alone took over an hour. His painful experience led him to ditch both these products, and create his own product Mint.com, in hopes of delivering a faster and more useful personal financial service. Unfortunately, not everyone is a programmer, who can automate a tedious task, and not all

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