LAMP & Microsoft Stacks | SMX Sydney | David Cropley

Stacks generally serve internet pages. Lets find out how modifying stacks can make sites load faster, it’s all about speed.

Microsoft Stacks

• The IIS SEO toolkit is a great place to start with people using IIS, it will allow you to get a better understanding of your site from an SEO perspective
• Use viewstates ( a view state defines a particular view of a component. For example, a product thumbnail could have two view states; a base state with minimal information, and a “rich” state with links for more information or to add the item to a shopping cart) sparingly
• Postbacks(allow the communication between client side and server side) are not links

Lamp Stack

• Lamp is like penguins, lots of Harry Potter jokes, I think you have to be in the room to get it.
• Use GZIP to compress things by around 70%
• Enable mod_deflate
• supports log files for benchmarking
• Use memcached-used by Facebook and Twitter, can be used with MySQL and PHP, it is also scalable.

Databases

• Use the DB to cache pages that take a lot of processing
• Cache random operations
• Look at your conditional clauses for hints on what columns to index
• Regularly review
• flush out old data

A little technical but had some great info.

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