A new approach to web performance
Maybe it's a sign of me getting old, but I have never understood the thought process behind building systems which server static content - newspapers, blogs - which require active processing for every request for every user.These are systems where the read/write ratios are often 1000:1.Ten years ago this was symptomized by systems which pulled the same content out of a database for every single request. We treated the symptoms by introducing caching servers and horizontal scaling.In modern times the symptom is displayed with heavy use of client-side rendering. Because, you know, this client-side rendering is "free" for the publisher.I don't understand how any "Engineer" can see 1000:1 R:W ratios and suggest doing all of the work on the R side of the ratio.