Web Performance Matters

With the obvious exception of a few bloggers like Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, whose blog Daily Kos receives over a million visits per day, I think most bloggers are happy just to know that someone cares enough to read what they write. In my own case, having spent my career working on software performance, I learned long ago that only a small fraction of the population is actually interested in Performance Matters. So I don't expect a lot of feedback.

All the same it's nice to hear from a reader occasionally, and yesterday was one of those days -- I received a comment from Damith C. Rajapakse.

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Service Level Management for Rich Internet Applications

This is the seventh post in a series devoted to the challenges of Service Level Management (SLM) for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). In these applications, some processing is transferred to the Web client while some remains on the application server.

Previous posts introduced the subject and the SLM topics I plan to address, reviewed the principal RIA technologies, introduced The RIA Behavior Model, introduced the application measurement topic and discussed RIA measurement challenges.

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In an earlier post, Managing RIA's [7]: Developing Usable RIA's, I commented that adopting a waterfall development methodology would not work well when developing Rich Internet Applications, because more agile methods were needed. But Waterfall methods refuse to die ...

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