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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

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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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning PHP 7 High Performance
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Stress/Load Testing PHP Applications

After an application is developed, tested, debugged and then profiled, it is time to bring it to production. However, before going to production, it is best practice to stress/load test the application. This test will give us an approximate result of how many requests at a certain time can be handled by our server running the application. Using these results, we can optimize the application, web server, database, and our caching tools to get a better result and process more requests.

In this chapter, we will load test different open source tools on both PHP 5.6 and PHP 7 and compare these applications' performance for both versions of PHP.

We will cover the following topics:

  • Apache JMeter

  • ApacheBench (ab)

  • Seige

  • Load testing Magento 2 on PHP 5.6 and PHP 7

  • Load testing WordPress on PHP 5.6 and PHP 7

  • Load testing Drupal 8 on PHP 5.6 and PHP 7