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PHP Microservices

By : Pablo Solar Vilariño, Carlos Pérez Sánchez
Book Image

PHP Microservices

By: Pablo Solar Vilariño, Carlos Pérez Sánchez

Overview of this book

The world is moving away from bulky, unreliable, and high-maintenance PHP applications, to small, easy-to-maintain and highly available microservices and the pressing need is for PHP developers to understand the criticalities in building effective microservices that scale at large. This book will be a reliable resource, and one that will help you to develop your skills and teach you techniques for building reliable microservices in PHP. The book begins with an introduction to the world of microservices, and quickly shows you how to set up a development environment and build a basic platform using Docker and Vagrant. You will then get into the different design aspects to be considered while building microservices in your favorite framework and you will explore topics such as testing, securing, and deploying microservices. You will also understand how to migrate a monolithic application to the microservice architecture while keeping scalability and best practices in mind. Furthermore you will get into a few important DevOps techniques that will help you progress on to more complex domains such as native cloud development, as well as some interesting design patterns. By the end of this book you will be able to develop applications based on microservices in an organized and efficient way. You will also gain the knowledge to transform any monolithic applications into microservices.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PHP Microservices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Performance best practices


If you are reading this book, it is probably because you are interested in web development and, in the last few years, the importance of the performance of web applications (such as APIs) is becoming more and more relevant. Here are some stats to give you an idea:

  • Amazon reported years ago that for every 100 ms of increase in the loading time, their sales decreased by 1%.

  • Google found that reducing the size of the page from 100 KB to 80 KB diminished their traffic by 25%.

  • 57% of online consumers will abandon a site after waiting for 3 seconds for a page to load.

  • 80% of the people who abandoned the site will not return. About a 50% of these people will tell others their negative experience.

As you can see, the performance of your app can impact your users and even your revenues. In this section, we will give you some tips to improve the overall performance of your web application.

Minimize HTTP requests

Each HTTP request has a payload. For this reason, an easy way to increase...