Community News: A Look at the Election, Is Your Site Giving Your Customers Stress and More

leigh@newrelic.com' By • Nov. 9th, 2012 • Software Engineering

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In this week’s news, we look at how election websites fared this week, find out if your site is giving your customers stress and go on a quest for awesome mobile landing pages.

* Joshua Bixby asks if swing voters were swung by web performance.

* In Chicago, confused voters caused the city’s election site to crash on Tuesday.

* Tim Morrow explains what to do when web page speed isn’t enough.

* Addy Osmani shows how to write fast, memory-efficient JavaScript.

* Brian Doll and Ilya Grigorik analyze millions of GitHub comments to find out what makes developers happy.

* Scott Brinker goes on a quest for awesome mobile landing pages.

* Strangeloop asks if your site is giving your customers stress.

* Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom explains why the speed of a product determines how much it will be used.

* Jonathan Klein shares Etsy’s latest site performance report.

* swesource shares a tutorial for setting up New Relic on JBoss AS7.

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