Monthly Archives: April 2011

Serving GZip Compressed Content from the Azure CDN

GZip Compression There are two big reasons why you should compress your content: time & money. Less data transferred over the wire means your site will be faster for users and bandwidth costs will be lower for you. Compressing the … Continue reading

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Throttling Web API Calls

Sign outside Wallington, England (CC-BY by anemoneprojectors) From Amazon to Zillow, there are thousands of sites which provide access to data via an API. At FilterPlay we use lots of e-commerce APIs to retrieve product data and update prices used … Continue reading

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