Learn Scaling

How do you scale a web application as it becomes more popular? These tutorials teach you useful techniques for scaling your web app to handle your newfound success.

All Scaling tutorials:

  1. Speeding Up WordPress: Image Optimization

    Speeding Up WordPress: Image Optimization

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this three-part series, we're working through a number of different strategies we can use in order to speed up our WordPress website. In this final part,...

  2. Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Minification Settings

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Minification Settings

    Tutorial Beginner

    In the previous article about configuration of W3 Total Cache plugin, we completed configurations of Page Caching. The next part of the advance settings is...

  3. Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Page Cache II

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Page Cache II

    Tutorial Beginner

    In the previous post, we started configuring advance settings of Page Cache in W3 Total Cache plugin and configured the General and Cache Preload settings....

  4. Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advance Page Cache I

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advance Page Cache I

    Tutorial Beginner

    At this point, we have configured the General Settings of the W3 Total Cache plugin. Let's move on to the advance settings portion of this plugin. First,...

  5. Configuring W3 Total Cache: General Settings II

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: General Settings II

    Tutorial Beginner

    We covered half of the General Settings in last article. Let's move forward to configure the remaining options offered by W3TC. In this article, you...

  6. Configuring W3 Total Cache: General Settings I

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: General Settings I

    Tutorial Beginner

    In our last introductory article, I told you all about the importance of using W3TC plugin. Let's start configuring it today. We will cover half of the...

  7. Trim the Bloat: Taking Another Look

    Trim the Bloat: Taking Another Look

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Throughout this series, we've been looking at a number of different strategies for keeping our WordPress installations as lean as possible. In doing this,...

  8. Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache

    Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache

    Tutorial Intermediate

    If you self-host WordPress, it's advisable to implement some kind of caching solution. Whether you want to run your blog in an economical micro instance at...

  9. Trim the Bloat: Lean It Out

    Trim the Bloat: Lean It Out

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The third post in the series. This one will focus on the actual examples on trimming down a WordPress site. Less is more, and this post will attempt to show...

  10. Trim the Bloat: Optimize Your Assets

    Trim the Bloat: Optimize Your Assets

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In the first post in this series, we took a look at a few things that we can do in order to keep our WordPress installation healthy. But that's not all we...

  11. Configuring W3 Total Cache: An Introduction

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: An Introduction

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The page speed of an optimized website scaled for high traffic is a phrase which a developer often hears from the moment they enter the industry. There is a...

  12. Trim the Bloat: An Introduction to Keeping WordPress Healthy

    Trim the Bloat: An Introduction to Keeping WordPress Healthy

    Tutorial Intermediate

    As site owners or developers, we have a responsibility. Specifically, we're responsible to make sure that our site is usable for our visitors and that our...