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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

You're reading from   Learning PHP 7 High Performance Improve the performance of your PHP application to ensure the application users aren't left waiting

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Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882265
Length 202 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iltaf (Altaf) Hussain Gul Iltaf (Altaf) Hussain Gul
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Altaf Hussain is a fullstack web and mobile app developer with over 6 years ofnexperience in PHP development. He received his degree in electrical engineering andnspecialized in computer and communications from Pakistan. Altaf is an electricalnengineer on paper and a software engineer by heart.nHe worked as a system programmer in his team, developing control software fornsmall test robots using assembly languages and C. After this, Altaf got interestednin web technologies and never looked back. He has worked with numerous PHPnframeworks, including Zend, Laravel, and Yii, and open source systems suchnas Drupal, WordPress, PrestaShop, and Magento. Altaf designed and built twonproprietary CMS systems with full support for multiple languages and models,npermissions, and translations, as well as different kinds of multilingual contentnmanagement. Now, he works in the fashion industry as the head of IT at shy7lo.com,nwhere his role is to manage the development team on the premises and abroad, innorder to manage Magento and Laravel applications development and the deploymentnlife cycle. Besides web apps, Altaf has worked on iOS and Android applications,nincluding building APIs in Lumen. He is a big fan of service-oriented architecturen(SOA) and successfully uses it in different applications.nAltaf actively researches on website performance and has deployed the latestntechnologies, such as PHP 7, NGINX, Redis, Varnish, and others, in productionnenvironments for high-speed and scalable applications. He is a Debian lover andnuses it for all of his web application deployments.nWhen not working, Altaf writes articles for programmingtunes.com andntechyocean.com. He has reviewed several books for Packt Publishing, includingnLearning Phalcon PHP, Mastering jQuery Mobile, and PrestaShop ModulenDevelopment.
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. New Features in PHP 7 3. Improving PHP 7 Application Performance 4. Improving Database Performance 5. Debugging and Profiling 6. Stress/Load Testing PHP Applications 7. Best Practices in PHP Programming A. Tools to Make Life Easy B. MVC and Frameworks Index

The Percona Server - a fork of MySQL

According to the Percona website, Percona is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source, and drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation.

Percona is a fork of MySQL with enhanced features for performance. All the features available in MySQL are available in Percona. Percona uses an enhanced storage engine called XtraDB. According to the Percona website, it is an enhanced version of the InnoDB storage engine for MySQL that has more features, faster performance, and better scalability on modern hardware. Percona XtraDB uses memory more efficiently in high-load environments.

As mentioned earlier, XtraDB is a fork of InnoDB, so all the features available in InnoDB are available in XtraDB.

Installing the Percona Server

Percona is only available for Linux systems. It is not available for Windows as of now. In this book, we will install Percona Server on Debian 8. The process is same for both Ubuntu and...

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