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Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By : Andrew Caya
Book Image

Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By: Andrew Caya

Overview of this book

This book will get you started with the latest benchmarking, profiling and monitoring tools for PHP, MySQL and JavaScript using Docker-based technologies. From optimizing PHP 7 code to learning asynchronous programming, from implementing Modern SQL solutions to discovering Functional JavaScript techniques, this book covers all the latest developments in Faster Web technologies. You will not only learn to determine the best optimization strategies, but also how to implement them. Along the way, you will learn how to profile your PHP scripts with Blackfire.io, monitor your Web applications, measure database performance, optimize SQL queries, explore Functional JavaScript, boost Web server performance in general and optimize applications when there is nothing left to optimize by going beyond performance. After reading this book, you will know how to boost the performance of any Web application and make it part of what has come to be known as the Faster Web.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Faster Web – Getting Started
6
Querying a Modern SQL Database Efficiently
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have learned how to install and configure a basic Blackfire.io setup in order to easily and automatically profile code when committing it to a repository. We have also explored how to install a TICK Stack in order to continuously monitor our code's performance after its deployment on a live production server. Thus, we have seen how to install and configure profiling and monitoring tools that help us easily optimize PHP code in a continuous integration (CI) and a continuous deployment (CD) environment.

In the next chapter, we will explore how better understanding PHP data structures and using simplified functions can help an application's global performance along its critical execution path. We will start by analyzing a project's critical path and, then, fine-tune certain of its data structures and functions.