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Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By : Andrew Caya
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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

PHP-FPM and OPCache


When talking about the Faster Web, it is certainly important to consider how to make sure that the PHP binary itself is being run in an optimized way on web servers, considering that PHP is installed on seventy to eighty percent of servers around the world.

PHP-FPM

Since PHP 5.3, PHP now includes a FastCGI process manager that allows you to run much more secure, much faster and more reliable PHP code on web servers. Before PHP-FPM, the default way to run PHP code on a web server was usually through the mod_php module. What makes PHP-FPM so interesting is the possibility for it to adapt itself to the number of incoming requests and spawn new processes in a pool of workers in order to scale to the growing demand. Moreover, running PHP this way allows for better script termination, more graceful server restarts, more advanced error reporting and server logging, and fine-grained tuning of the PHP environment for each and every PHP pool of workers through the daemonization of...