Openwest 2013 - 5/4 - Steven Citron-Pousty - "Scale or Fail" (35)
Channel: OpenWest (old)
Date: 05/08/2013

Give your app the speed it needs in the cloud.

Whether you have one or a million visitors accessing your web app, they are all going to demand a great user experience regardless of what it takes for you to deliver it. This invariably means quick page loads and fast response times every single time. When things go south, you just throw more hardware at the problem and increase your caches and buffers, right? Wrong. Toss in an infrastructure that resides on the cloud and now you've got a really interesting problem on your hands.