This blog post is a short list of things you can do, on basically any web project, to improve performance, scalability, and cost. In 2015, a medium sized server (8 cores, 24GB of RAM) is capable of serving hundreds-to-thousands of HTTP requests per second. This post is a guide to making sure you aren’t wasting your resources on things that are already solved problems. All of these assume you have monitoring to track your availability, and metrics to track various aspects of your site’s pe...
