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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

Functional programming and memoization


PHP is an imperative and not a declarative language, which means that programming is done using statements that alter the state of the program, just like other languages in the C family, and it is not composed of stateless expressions or declarations, like SQL for example. Though PHP is primarily a structural (procedural) and object-oriented programming language, we have seen, since PHP 5.3, more and more requests for change that asked for more and more structures that are functional in nature, such as generators and lambda functions (anonymous functions). Nevertheless, PHP remains for now a structural language in nature, especially when it comes to performance.

This being said, most functional programming techniques will yield fruit a few years from now, but there are still some functional programming techniques that can be used immediately in PHP that will improve performance as soon as you implement them in the code base of a project. One such technique...