HTTP overhead is expensive. DNS lookups are expensive. Start dropping a bunch of Twitter widgets, Google ads, and GetSatisfaction buttons into your killer new Web 2.0 social networking site and you’ll find that your painstakingly-optimized site has slowed to a crawl while the server sits there waiting on Amazon S3 to get its act together [...]
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I'm Chris Heald. I'm a software developer and serial tinkerer from Phoenix, Arizona. I work as Chief Architect for Mashable, where I get to build nifty things. I work primarily in Ruby, Javascript, and PHP, and am always on the lookout for new and interesting things to tinker with. Connect with me on Google+ or Twitter.
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