NGINX has shared the first version of an early alpha-level patch that enables HTTP/2 support in the popular HTTP server. Includes full configuration and installation instructions.

Nicolas Bevacqua reflects on some talks he’s been giving about Web performance, looks at several tools and tactics he recommends people use to monitor their own site’s performance, and plugs his book.

“We essentially now have both HTTP/2 and WebSocket capable of pretty much the same things.”

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You can now read all of Lara Hogan’s fine book on balancing aesthetics and performance on Web sites, as published by O’Reilly, for free online.

There are many performance tools nowadays for Linux, but how do they all fit together, and when do we use them? Brendan Gregg shares his 90 minute Velocity session on the topic.

JMeter is a tool to stress test your website and your application architecture but it works best if you can run it from numerous machines simultaneously. For that, Amazon’s EC2 comes in handy.

A company shares some stats behind their testing aimed at working out where best to place their EC2 instances (spoiler: they chose Virginia).