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
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