Posts Tagged ‘performance’
Use Sprites Wisely
Vlad has good points about proper use of CSS sprites in his recent post on the subject as well as his comments on Ryan's post. In short, even the simplest sprite images can eat up massive amounts of system memory -- 50MB to even 100MB per page or more. Perceived speed for your site is important but you should always be concerned about how sprites and other hacks can affect user experience. More info: Rob Sayre - Sprites Vladimir Vukićević - To Sprite Or Not To Sprite Read More »
Graph Server Re-Write
Over the past few months the Graph Server team and I have been hard at work re-writing the back end for the Graph Server and it's finally come to fruition. For those that don't know, the Graph Server is used to display performance test data of Firefox builds reported by Talos. Our work initially started as performance improvements and some new features, but the more we worked with the old architecture, it became quite apparent it would not scale (performance and feature-wise). The old database schema duplicated test data in multiple ... Read More »
