Learn about Performance

Improve your web app's performance and speed with the techniques in these tutorials, including code optimization, caching, and other optimization strategies.
  1. Understanding the Magic of Bloom Filters With Node.js & Redis

    Understanding the Magic of Bloom Filters With Node.js & Redis

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial we will explain the curious properties of Bloom filters and three practical ways to use them: finding unused usernames, checking for stale...

  2. How to Use New Relic Insights to Learn More About Your Customers

    How to Use New Relic Insights to Learn More About Your Customers

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to use New Relic Insights to collect information about your web application's users and use it to build a customer...

  3. How to Optimize and Accelerate Your Website With Imperva Incapsula

    How to Optimize and Accelerate Your Website With Imperva Incapsula

    Tutorial Beginner

    Incapsula provides a myriad of content delivery, networking and performance optimization techniques to accelerate page speed and minimize latency, including...

  4. Improving SEO Using Nginx

    Improving SEO Using Nginx

    Tutorial Beginner

    SEO is about making your websites rank higher in organic results. This tutorial will guide you through some basic steps to improve performance of your...

  5. How to Use New Relic Browser to Improve Your Web App's User Experience

    How to Use New Relic Browser to Improve Your Web App's User Experience

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In modern web applications, a big part of what the user sees, from page loading to actions triggered in JavaScript, happens inside a web browser rather than...

  6. Understanding Fluent APIs in JavaScript

    Understanding Fluent APIs in JavaScript

    Tutorial Intermediate

    While designing Babylon.js v2.0 (a library for building 3D on the web), I recently found myself wishing that more APIs were fluent—that is, I wish the...

  7. Better Cross-Platform Development: Highlights From the Microsoft Tutorial Series

    Better Cross-Platform Development: Highlights From the Microsoft Tutorial Series

    Tutorial Beginner

    Recently we've been running a series of sponsored tutorials by Microsoft technical evangelists, designed to help you solve the problem of building things...

  8. Why and How We Migrated Babylon.js to Azure

    Why and How We Migrated Babylon.js to Azure

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, I want to humbly use one of our more recent “success stories” around our WebGL open-source gaming framework, Babylon.js, and its website....

  9. Speed Up WordPress: Using CDNs, Compression, and Minification

    Speed Up WordPress: Using CDNs, Compression, and Minification

    Tutorial Beginner

    In the first part of this series, we reviewed caching and database optimization. In this second part, we'll talk about compression, minification, and using a...

  10. Diagnose WordPress Performance Problems With New Relic

    Diagnose WordPress Performance Problems With New Relic

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Understanding what makes WordPress fast or slow requires a broad understanding of web infrastructure, and New Relic makes finding problems within your...

  11. Speed Up WordPress: Caching and Database Optimization

    Speed Up WordPress: Caching and Database Optimization

    Tutorial Beginner

    One of the most popular talking points in the WordPress community is speeding up WordPress and optimizing web pages. In this three-part series, we're going...

  12. Accelerate Your Content Delivery With KeyCDN

    Accelerate Your Content Delivery With KeyCDN

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Speed up your website or WordPress site with KeyCDN. Fast, simple, affordable and reliable, it's an ideal CDN for newbies or experienced system...