Using Parallel Requests to Improve Web Performance / / No Comments Yesterday I blogged about a change I made to my bots page and in it, I mentioned how the performance wasn’t necessarily as good as it could be. I had made the decision to go from server-side and build-time for the page to a purely client-side solution. At the end of the post, I asked folks to let me know if anyone would like to have me work on that performance issue, and, honestly, it kept popping up in my head so I figured I should tackle it. Before I begin talking about what I changed, let me review what I had done, and what the issues are. The Current Solution You can go to the bots page yourself, but in general, this is the process: Given a list of bots… For each one, get the... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: improve, Parallel, performance, Requests, using
Parallel JavaScript with ParallelJS – SitePoint / / No Comments SitePoint Parallel JavaScript with ParallelJSSitePointBy its own construction, JavaScript is executed in a single thread mediated by an event loop (usually following the reactor pattern). For example, this gives us some nice abstraction for handling asynchronous requests to (external) resources. It also … JavaScript – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: JavaScript, Parallel, ParallelJS, SitePoint