Performance Project

by Bruno Skvorc, Zoran Antolovic, Claudio Ribeiro, Tonino Jankov

Released August 2018

Publisher(s): SitePoint

ISBN: 9781925836134

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Book description

Performance simply matters. Technology may allow us to "go bigger", but maybe not necessarily be better when it comes to performance. Now is the time to utilize the amazing tools that are available for making websites faster, and to learn how to improve user experience and satisfaction.

This book contains a series of practical, real-world performance tutorials, all based around a single project: a simple image gallery blog. We'll build the project, and then run through a series of performance optimization processes; by the time we're done, we'll have achieved very significant performance improvements. This book is packed with useful, real world hints and tips that you can use on your sites today. It contains:

Building an Image Gallery Blog with Symfony Flex: the Setup by Zoran Antolovic
Building an Image Gallery Blog with Symfony Flex: Data Testing by Zoran Antolovic
PHP-level Performance Optimization with Blackfire by Bruno Skvorc
MySQL Performance Boosting with Indexes and Explain by Claudio Ribeiro
Improving Performance Perception with Pingdom and GTmetrix by Tonino Jankov
Improving Performance Perception: On-demand Image Resizing by Bruno Skvorc
Using Background Processing to Speed Up Page Load Times by Bruno Skvorc
Server-side Optimization with Nginx and pm-static by Tonino Jankov
How to Use Varnish and Cloudflare for Maximum Caching by Bruno Skvorc

This book is for all developers who wish to build sites and apps that run faster. It covers a range of performace tools; familiarity with web development is assumed.