Ajax Performance

Network Computing coverage of speedbumps in Ajax adoption

Yet another interesting article, this time from Lori MacVittie at Network Computing, discussing the risks as enterprises start to incorporate Ajax and RIA technologies.

I love these snippets:

Web 2.0 and RIA (Rich Internet Applications) will dramatically change your infrastructure in terms of monitoring, management, deployment and availability.

[T]he developers who blazed the way rarely concerned themselves with details like management, security, scalability or support. They were in it for the thrill of the hunt.

Most customers I’ve worked with run into exactly the issues listed in this article. Because we’re still in a very immature phase of adoption, Ajax is often introduced into applications without a lot of thought about manageability, performance, etc. I touched on this some in the first section of What is a page?, and it’s gratifying to see more discussion of this in the mainstream enterprise press.