built_for_speed

Built For Speed: Prevent Amazon CloudFront From Serving Stale Assets

In the last Built For Speed post, I demonstrated how you can use the Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) for images on your site. However, ideally we should be using CloudFront for all static assets, not just images.

Built For Speed: Using Amazon CloudFront To Serve Assets

This is the second in a series of posts on improving your site’s performance with the help of the YSlow Firefox plugin. In the last Built for Speed post, we took a look at YSlow’s most important factor in page speed – the number of HTTP requests. We demonstrated using the AssetPackager plugin to help reduce both the number of HTTP requests and the size of your CSS and JavaScript files.

Built For Speed: Using the AssetPackager Plugin

Inspired by the recent launch of code.google.com/speed, I decided to sit down and see how I could apply their guidelines. This is the first in a series of posts on improving front-end performance for your Rails applications.

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