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Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

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Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

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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.

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Faster Web – Getting Started

What is the Faster Web?

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Continuous Profiling and Monitoring

What is Blackfire.io?

Performance testing with Blackfire.io

Monitoring performance with the TICK Stack

Summary

References

Harnessing the Power of PHP 7 Data Structures and Functions

PHP 7 optimizations

Identifying more possible optimizations

Functional programming and memoization

Summary

Reference

Envisioning the Future with Asynchronous PHP

Asynchronous non-blocking I/O calls

Multithreading with pthreads

Using the ReactPHP library

Summary

Measuring and Optimizing Database Performance

SQL query performance

Advanced benchmarking tools

Summary

Querying a Modern SQL Database Efficiently

Modern SQL

Summary

JavaScript and Danger-Driven Development

The global object and local variables

Avoiding bad idioms and keeping an eye on the very bad parts

Using the DOM efficiently

Structuring and loading a JavaScript application

Summary

Functional JavaScript

Simplifying functions

Functional programming techniques

More upcoming JavaScript features

Summary

Boosting a Web Server's Performance

MOD_SPDY and HTTP/2

PHP-FPM and OPCache

ESI and Varnish Cache

Client-side caching

Other Faster Web tools

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Going Beyond Performance

Clocked and perceived time

Speed perception

Reasonable delay and response times

UI design principles and patterns

"Beyond Performance" tools

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