MASTIC

Professional website Performance:

• Examines factors such as compression and JavaScript, database performance, MySQL tuning, NoSQL alternatives, load-balancing across multiple servers, effective caching of web contents, CSS, and more
• Walks you through minimizing the performance penalties of SSL
• Discusses the dangers of premature optimization and how it can add complexity to your code
• Looks at waterfall views at the front end of a website, which show the order in which the browser is requesting resources
• Addresses scaling horizontally (increasing the number of machines in your setup) versus scaling vertically (keeping the same number of servers, but upgrading their Hardware)