Having met our minimum requirements for functionality, our app has been published and is available on the Internet. Before we've had a chance to blink, BrewHow.com is inundated with users at a rate we had barely ever imagined. Within weeks, popular technology news outlets are talking about us being the biggest IPO in history. We begin to wonder what we will do with our new found wealth when, suddenly, we wake up.
Saddened it was just a dream, we begin to wonder what we would do if we were ever so fortunate to have the types of scaling problems some of the recent technology darlings have suffered. We decide we need to know more about building responsive apps.
In this chapter, we are going to explore how to make our app more responsive to the users by improving performance on the server side. These improvements will focus on how our app can get information to the users more efficiently and with less wait time. To accomplish this, we will explore...