Milliseconds are Money: How Much Performance Matters in the Cloud In the cloud … faster is better! But how much faster equals how much better? If your site loads even one second faster, will your audience grow? Will you have more sales? If so, by how much? Would you believe it takes only half a second to lose 1/5th of your visitors?
Accelerating Web Sites and Applications: a Cloud Caching Primer Caching is a key concept in computing. Caching algorithms and hardware are used in virtually every aspect of computing to increase efficiency and performance. When it comes to web sites and applications there are numerous caching mechanisms potentially in play that can have a dramatic impact on the end users experience.
InfiniBand: The New Standard of Cloud Computing I am frequently asked by techies why Carbon60 uses InfiniBand technology to power its cloud computing fabric. For many, this is an unusual choice. Despite the fact that half of the world’s most powerful super-computers use InfiniBand, the technology has not made its way into the typical datacenter.
