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High Performance Web Sites

2008; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 6; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/1466443.1466450

1542-7749

Steve Souders,

Mobile and Web Applications

Google Maps, Yahoo! Mail, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and Amazon are examples of Web sites built to scale. They access petabytes of data sending terabits per second to millions of users worldwide. The magnitude is awe-inspiring. Users view these large-scale Web sites from a narrower perspective. The typical user has megabytes of data that are downloaded at a few hundred kilobits per second. Users are not so interested in the massive number of requests per second being served; they care more about their individual requests. As they use these Web applications, they inevitably ask the same question: "Why is this site so slow?"