Too-biased: Passenger. “We switched to enterprise ruby to get the full benefit of the COW memory characteristics and we can absolutely confirm the memory savings of 30% some others have reported. This is many thousand dollars of savings even at today’s hardware prices.” Thijs (edit) ¶

Flickr Developer Blog: Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site. “Don’t use a JavaScript library or CSS framework, Load page fragments instead of full pages, Don’t build for just one device, Optimize everything, Tell the user what is happening” Thijs (edit) ¶

Unweary: Specifying Performance. “For each user interaction in your software ask yourself if the user is expecting an Instantaneous response, (0.1 to 0.2 seconds), an Immediate response (0.5 to 1.0 seconds), a Continuous (2 to 5 seconds), or a Captive response (7 to 10 seconds).” Thijs (edit) ¶

Phusion Corporate Blog: Phusion Passenger™ 2.0 RC 1 and Ruby Enterprise Edition released. Now supports Rack and WSGI (yes, Python) too. Thijs (edit) ¶

Ola Bini: Just add scaling! “I still haven’t found anyone who knows how you implement Scaling in a language [...] Anyone who care to enlighten me, please send me a detailed email with an implementation of Scaling. I really feel the need to know how this thing works.” Very funny. Thijs (edit) ¶

High Performance Web Sites: Cuzillion I’m going to be needing this soon. Thijs (edit) ¶