Web Performance & Dev Ops

A few links that are relevant to web performance, how to improve it and its effect on the bottom line:

• Cheat Sheet: Everything you wanted to know about web performance but were afraid to ask
• The performance business pitch
• 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites
• Proof that speeding up websites improves online business

And a book that has some good hints on rethinking the approach to building scalable architectecure for the web:
Scalable Internet Architectures (Developer's Library)

Well worth looking into Dev Ops as well