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Back-end Performance

by Bruno Skvorc, Christopher Pitt, Tonino Jankov, Reza Lavaryan, Daniel Berman

August 2018

Intermediate to advanced

141 pages

2h 23m

English

SitePoint

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Notice of RightsNotice of LiabilityTrademark NoticeAbout SitePoint
Who Should Read This Book?Conventions UsedCode SamplesTips, Notes, and Warnings
by Bruno ŠkvorcConfiguration OptimizationEditing ConfigurationManual TweaksVariable InspectorMySQL TunerIndexesUnique / Primary IndexesRegular IndexesFulltext IndexesDescending IndexesHelper Tools: ExplainHelper Tools: Percona for Duplicate IndexesHelper Tools: Percona for Unused IndexesBottlenecksConclusion
by Chris PittMeasuring SuccessWhat Are Our Options?Reading Files, Line By LinePiping Between FilesOther StreamsFiltersCustomizing StreamsMaking Custom Protocols and FiltersSummary
by Tonino JankovChoice of HostingSoftware ConsiderationsData modelMeta queries can be expensiveDatabase hygieneCachingPage CachingFragment cachingObject cacheBrowser cachingStatic FilesOther random tipsConclusion
by Tonino JankovHTTP/1SPDYHow to See If a Website Is Serving Resources over HTTP/2ImplementationsServersConclusion
by Tonino JankovHardware ConsiderationsMonitoringTesting the SystemTuning ApacheApache's mpm modulesOther tips for tuning Apache:NginxNginx settingsCaching with NginxConclusion
by Reza LavaryanGetting StartedBuilding Blocks of BlackfireSome Terms to Know before We StartProfiling a ScriptGenerating Dummy DataSetting up the MySQL DatabaseWriting the Main ScriptRunning the First ProfileAnalyzing the Profile InformationOptimizing the Existing CodeUsing the Command Line InterfaceProfiling HTTP RequestsProfiling CLI ScriptsPerformance TestsWrapping Up
by Tonino JankovHow It WorksVarnish FeaturesInstalling VarnishSimplicity of SetupSetting up Varnish with NodeJSOther TipsConclusion
by Daniel BermanInstalling JavaInstalling ELKInstalling ElasticsearchInstalling LogstashInstalling KibanaShipping LogsAnalyzing LogsSearchingVisualizingConclusion

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Chapter 7: How to Boost Your Server Performance with Varnish

by Tonino Jankov

Varnish Cache is an HTTP accelerator and reverse proxy developed by Danish consultant and FreeBSD core developer Poul-Henning Kamp, along with other developers at Norwegian Linpro AS. It was released in 2006.

According to Pingdom.com, a company focused on web performance, in 2012 Varnish was already famous among the world's top websites for its capacity to speed up web delivery, and it was being used by sites such as Wired, SlideShare, Zappos, SoundCloud, Weather.com, Business Insider, Answers.com, Urban Dictionary, MacRumors, DynDNS, OpenDNS, Lonely Planet, Technorati, ThinkGeek and Economist.com.

It is licensed under a two-clause BSD license. Varnish has a premium ...