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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 query an SQL database efficiently using Modern SQL. We have defined what Modern SQL is and how we can use it. We have acquired knowledge of how to convert certain traditional SQL queries into modern ones and when it is best to do so. Moreover, by doing so, we now better understand how Modern SQL can help us optimize a server's performance in more than one way.

In the next chapter, we will cover a few of JavaScript’s best and worst parts, especially those that pertain to code efficiency and overall performance, and how a developer should always write safe, reliable and highly efficient JavaScript code, mostly by avoiding danger-driven development.