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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

Boosting a Web Server's Performance

Amongst the main points that Google had identified as being the first order of business of its Faster Web initiative was to update the aging web protocols. Many projects around the world were already underway as the new focus of web development was shifting from offering more and more features to users, even if these were slow, to offering features that were not incompatible with web performance. Google's initiative helped to change web development priorities and, thus, allowed existing projects to come to light and new projects to be created.

In this chapter, we will cover a few projects that went along with Google's new initiative for the web. Thus, we will cover the following points:

  • MOD_SPDY and HTTP/2
  • PHP-FPM and OPCache
  • ESI and Varnish Cache
  • Client-side caching
  • Other Faster Web tools
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