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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

Learning PHP 7 High Performance

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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

Learning PHP 7 High Performance

Overview of this book

PHP is a great language for building web applications. It is essentially a server-side scripting language that is also used for general-purpose programming. PHP 7 is the latest version, providing major backward-compatibility breaks and focusing on high performance and speed. This fast-paced introduction to PHP 7 will improve your productivity and coding skills. The concepts covered will allow you, as a PHP programmer, to improve the performance standards of your applications. We will introduce you to the new features in PHP 7 and then will run through the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP 7. Next, we will shed some light on how to improve your PHP 7 applications' performance and database performance. Through this book, you will be able to improve the performance of your programs using the various benchmarking tools discussed. At the end, the book discusses some best practices in PHP programming to help you improve the quality of your code.
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Content Delivery Network (CDN)


Content Delivery Network is used to host static media files, such as images, .css and .js files, and audio and video files. These files are stored on a geographical network whose servers are located in different locations. Then, these files are served to requests from a specific server, depending on the request location.

CDN provides the following features:

  • As the contents are static, which don't change frequently, CDN caches them in memory. When a request comes for a certain file, CDN sends the file directly from cache, which is faster than loading the file from disk and sending it to the browser.

  • CDN servers are located in different locations. All the files are stored in each location, depending on your settings in CDN. When a browser request arrives to CDN, CDN sends the requested contents from the nearest location available to the requested location. For example, if the CDN has servers in London, New York, and Dubai and a request comes from Middle East, the...

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