Workshop: Architecting Web Applications for Performance [onsite only]

Everybody talks about performance and snappy responses for their web application. But the full-stack framework with its powerful ORM and complex code infrastructure, various external libraries, and the chronically overloaded database make the goal of a high-performance website a distant prospect. The integration with various, of course, slow APIs from third parties does the rest. Oh, and e-mails have to be sent as well. And we didn't even talk about the frontend stack yet. If you follow the "best practices" of many frameworks and tutorials, all this work is done at the request time and often on the client. But the Unix world has shown for decades that the secret of success lies in the interaction of highly specialized and, above all, small applications. Time to apply this insight to your own code. In this workshop, we will rethink a classically built web application - and simply get rid of everything slowing us down.