Use The Index, Luke! : A tutorial covering SQL indexing and SQL tuning for developers: avoiding unnecessary details about database internals.
SQL indexing is the most effect...
MySQLTuner : MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stabi...
Minimize round-trip times : An article on the best practices to apply in order to minimize HTTP round-trip times
Pyroscope : Pyroscope is an open source continuous profiling platform. It will help you:
Find performance issues in your code
Resolve issues with high CPU utiliz...
FillDB : FillDB is a free tool that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in MySql format to use in testing software and populating databases ...
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Minimize round-trip times : An article on the best practices to apply in order to minimize HTTP round-trip times
Let's make the web faster : There are many ways to make websites run faster. In this section, you can discover performance best practices that real web professionals employ in th...
High Performance Browser Networking : Performance is a feature. This book provides a hands-on overview of what every web developer needs to know about the various types of networks (WiFi, ...
chromeless : The chromeless project is an experiment into making it possible to build a web browser using only web technologies, like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Nice write-up on techniques for scaling up a web application.