Building a web service that is fast, or apparently fast, even when it’s built on top of the Internet which might not be all that fast is a difficult job. Here Mike Bulman, tech lead for Rackspace’s Email and Apps team shows off some of the techniques they used to make their apps snappy.
For more, related information and advice from Rackspace on app optimization, see my interview with Rick Averett from last week.
[Robert Scoble is the founder of Building 43 and makes his bones as an emerging technology fanatic and interviewer of movers and shakers in tech and social media.]