Description:

The A in AJAX stands for Asynchronous. But asynchronous is not just for the clientside. Any non-trivial webserver can benefit from being able to do two things at once in the service of the user. Find out how to perform reliable background processing, reduce page render latency and scale your application's load over a cluster of servers using message queues. This talk will be illustrated with real examples from dopplr.com, but will be generally applicable to any web developer.