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Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify

By : Manuel Spigolon, Maksim Sinik, Matteo Collina
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Book Image

Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify

4.5 (2)
By: Manuel Spigolon, Maksim Sinik, Matteo Collina

Overview of this book

This book is a complete guide to server-side app development in Fastify, written by the core contributors of this highly performant plugin-based web framework. Throughout the book, you’ll discover how it fosters code reuse, thereby improving your time to market. Starting with an introduction to Fastify’s fundamental concepts, this guide will lead you through the development of a real-world project while providing in-depth explanations of advanced topics to prepare you to build highly maintainable and scalable backend applications. The book offers comprehensive guidance on how to design, develop, and deploy RESTful applications, including detailed instructions for building reusable components that can be leveraged across multiple projects. The book presents guidelines for creating efficient, reliable, and easy-to-maintain real-world applications. It also offers practical advice on best practices, design patterns, and how to avoid common pitfalls encountered by developers while building backend applications. By following these guidelines and recommendations, you’ll be able to confidently design, implement, deploy, and maintain an application written in Fastify, and develop plugins and APIs to contribute to the Fastify and open source communities.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Fastify Basics
7
Part 2:Build a Real-World Project
14
Part 3:Advanced Topics

How to measure an application’s performance?

By following the Optimization Cycle, the first step to improving something in every work field is that we need to set a baseline. The starting point will be different for each company’s department. For instance, the sales team will measure the sales or the revenue over time to set its improvement goals.

So, we need to define what is worth measuring by defining our application’s metrics boundaries. It’s clear that our first challenge is choosing what to measure. The most common metrics are the following:

  • HTTP response times and request rates
  • Error ratings
  • Process metrics such as CPU, memory, and Garbage Collector usage

Each bullet point is a KPI. Every KPI requires a different approach and a different analysis. Despite their differences, these measurements are strongly connected since inadequate resource management will impact the response latency, and a high error rating may increase...