Performance Tips & Resources for PHP, Java, .Net, Python and Ruby – help us crowdsource!
We’re assembling some helpful performance tips and performance best practices from around the web – and we want your help! If you have any more links to share about building high performance apps, add them in the comments and we’ll keep updating this page. Here’s a few to get started, but again – please help me build this post out as a performance resource!

JAVA
Java Performance Tips
Java Performance on Wikipedia
Intel’s report on Java Performance tips
Java performance tuning (book)

.NET
.net Performance Tips
Improving .net performance (book)
Improving .net and asp performance

PHP
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PYTHON
Python Performance Tips
Python Performance Tips
10 Optimization Tips and Issues (for Python)
Python Patterns
Python Profiling
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RUBY
Super Simple Ruby Performance Tips
10 Controversial Ruby Performance Tips
10 Tips to Boost your Ruby on Rails Performance
Rails Lab
Great resource list from Alex Podelko: Performance Engineering
GENERAL PERFORMANCE TIPS
Stoyan Stefanov’ “Book of Speed”
Strangeloop’s Web Performance Hub
Steve Souder’s Web Performance Site
Yahoo’s developer center: Web performance
Performance Calendar
Presentation on web performance
Web Performance Matters Blog
Apdex – an industry standard for performance measurement
10 Realistic Steps to a Faster Website
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Here are a few more links http://alexanderpodelko.com/PerfDesign.html
Patrick Moran Reply:
January 22nd, 2012 at 7:47 am
thanks! I’ll add it.
Posted: 21 January 2012 at 6:47 pm by Alex Podelko
Here is one specifically for optimizing Zend Applications http://survivethedeepend.com/zendframeworkbook/en/1.0/performance.optimisation.for.zend.framework.applications
Patrick Moran Reply:
January 22nd, 2012 at 7:47 am
thanks! I’ll add it
Posted: 22 January 2012 at 2:39 am by Dade Aderemi
Thank you for the compilation. May be you linked the title “10 Controversial Ruby Performance Tips” with wrong reference? I can see the same link with two titles as “10 Controversial Ruby Performance Tips” and “10 Tips to Boost your Ruby on Rails Performance”. Would you please recheck?
Patrick Moran Reply:
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:36 am
doh!
Posted: 23 January 2012 at 2:16 am by Fuad Omar
Thanks for this useful compilation.
But the three Java Links point to the same target PDF!
Here is a link to a sun whitepaper on Java tuning (2005) :
http://java.sun.com/performance/reference/whitepapers/tuning.html
Patrick Moran Reply:
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:36 am
whoops! Will fix
Posted: 23 January 2012 at 4:02 am by Don
Thanks for this list
If you’ve time, here are my bookmarks about WPO, I’m sure you could find some interesting links
http://delicious.com/pomeh/WPO
http://delicious.com/pomeh/performance
Cheers,
Pomeh
Posted: 23 January 2012 at 5:31 am by pomeh
Please check the links, almost all are duplicates, not only in the Java section.
Posted: 24 January 2012 at 3:43 am by maettig
This information is priceless. Where can I find out more?
Posted: 5 February 2012 at 12:24 pm by seo