Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

Make web applications run faster by using advanced PHP, SQL and JavaScript techniques Key Features Use a customized PHP stack to create efficient data-driven web applications Ensure seamless implementation of a JavaScript & HTML 5 CSS based frontend and PHP based backend. Learn about problem identification, best strategies, and UI design patterns as well to build a clean, fast web application Book Description 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. What you will learn Install, confgure, and use profling and benchmarking testing tools Understand how to recognize optimizable data structures and functions to effectively optimize a PHP7 application Diagnose bad SQL query performance and discover ways to optimize it Grasp modern SQL techniques to optimize complex SQL queries Identify and simplify overly complex JavaScript code Explore and implement UI design principles that effectively enhance the performance Combine web technologies to boost web server performance Who this book is for The audience for this book would be PHP developers who have some basic knowledge of PHP programming and Web technologies. JavaScript programming knowledge is not necessary.