High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. Scalability is the talk of the town with new apps going through very public growing pains on the regular as they struggle to cope with exponential growth. It's about time someone started aggregating this knowledge.
Ajax and Flex Data Loading Benchmarks. Demo app from James Ward comparing performance of various data loading techniques. Mostly intended for showing off Flex performance vs. Ajax, but the Ajax stats are interesting in and of themselves.
Flex, Flash and Apollo for Rich Internet Applications. Adobe evangelist James Ward giving a Google tech talk. Lots of detail and clarification of the generally quite fuzzy picture of what's possible with these technologies.
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