We’ve all experienced web sites that take several seconds to load. Fifteen years ago, when DSL connections where considered fast, a page load that took several seconds was acceptable. This is no longer the case. In fact, since 2010, Google has used page speed as a ranking factor for search results. A nontrivial percentage of users will abandon slow sites and skip to the next search result. Given these facts, I strongly believe that performance should be a feature of every web application.
Throughout this book, we’ve talked in detail about how to use various Azure services to scale and ...