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Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

You're reading from   Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript Develop state-of-the-art web applications using the latest web technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788392211
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Faster Web – Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Continuous Profiling and Monitoring 3. Harnessing the Power of PHP 7 Data Structures and Functions 4. Envisioning the Future with Asynchronous PHP 5. Measuring and Optimizing Database Performance 6. Querying a Modern SQL Database Efficiently 7. JavaScript and Danger-Driven Development 8. Functional JavaScript 9. Boosting a Web Server's Performance 10. Going Beyond Performance 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

PHP-FPM and OPCache


When talking about the Faster Web, it is certainly important to consider how to make sure that the PHP binary itself is being run in an optimized way on web servers, considering that PHP is installed on seventy to eighty percent of servers around the world.

PHP-FPM

Since PHP 5.3, PHP now includes a FastCGI process manager that allows you to run much more secure, much faster and more reliable PHP code on web servers. Before PHP-FPM, the default way to run PHP code on a web server was usually through the mod_php module. What makes PHP-FPM so interesting is the possibility for it to adapt itself to the number of incoming requests and spawn new processes in a pool of workers in order to scale to the growing demand. Moreover, running PHP this way allows for better script termination, more graceful server restarts, more advanced error reporting and server logging, and fine-grained tuning of the PHP environment for each and every PHP pool of workers through the daemonization of...

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