State of Web Performance 2010 (via Steve Souders)
Steve Souders recently published his State of Performance for the web for 2010. This is a well written state of where we have been in improving and capitalizing on performance of web applications and web sites in general. It also goes into plans and hopes for 2011. I personally am excited about the continual progression towards web performance. It is finally becoming a reality that performance does indeed make a difference, generate revenue, and increase traffic flow. Not only does it matter on the backend technologies (databases, architecture, SOA, JSON, etc), but it also matters heavily on the frontend side. I heavily recommend reading this article as well as following Steve Souders blog.
Thanks and remember that performance matters!

Great read. I also highly recommend tracking Steve. He constantly comes out with great information.