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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

Monitoring performance with the TICK Stack


The TICK Stack was developed by InfluxData (InfluxDB) and is made of a series of integrated components that allow you to easily process time-series data generated by different services through time. TICK is an acronym that is composed of the first letters of each main product of the monitoring suite. T is for Telegraf, which collects the information we wish to obtain on our production server. I is for InfluxDB, which is a time-series database that contains the information collected by Telegraf or by any other application which is configured to do so. C is for Chronograf, a graph tool that allows us to easily understand the collected data. Finally, K is for Kapacitor, an alert automation tool.

Monitoring infrastructure performance is not only important to determine if applications and scripts are running as expected, but also allows for development of more advanced algorithms such as failure prediction and unexpected behavior pattern recognition,...