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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

Other Faster Web tools


Many other Faster Web tools exist that can help you optimize the performance of your web applications and websites. Amongst these many tools are those suggested by Google on their Faster Web site for developers (https://developers.google.com/speed/). One tool that will help you further analyze the performance issues of web applications is PageSpeed Insights.

This tool quickly identifies any possible performance optimizations for your web application, based on the URL you submit. To further analyze the effects of using Cloudflare for the Linux for PHP website, let's submit the URL to the PageSpeed Insights tool.

Here are the initial results before using Cloudflare:

Results of the performance analysis of the linuxforphp.net website when NOT using Cloudflare

And, here are the results after adding the Cloudflare reverse proxy server:

Results of the performance analysis of the linuxforphp.net website when using Cloudflare

Not only can we see that the general performance of the...