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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

Learning PHP 7 High Performance

By : Iltaf (Altaf) Hussain Gul, Raul Mesa Ros
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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

Learning PHP 7 High Performance

By: Iltaf (Altaf) Hussain Gul, Raul Mesa Ros

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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The Percona Server - a fork of MySQL


According to the Percona website, Percona is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source, and drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation.

Percona is a fork of MySQL with enhanced features for performance. All the features available in MySQL are available in Percona. Percona uses an enhanced storage engine called XtraDB. According to the Percona website, it is an enhanced version of the InnoDB storage engine for MySQL that has more features, faster performance, and better scalability on modern hardware. Percona XtraDB uses memory more efficiently in high-load environments.

As mentioned earlier, XtraDB is a fork of InnoDB, so all the features available in InnoDB are available in XtraDB.

Installing the Percona Server

Percona is only available for Linux systems. It is not available for Windows as of now. In this book, we will install Percona Server on Debian 8. The process is same for both Ubuntu and...

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