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Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition Speeding up the Web

By Patrick Killelea
Second Edition March 2002
Pages: 480 (More details)

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Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition is about getting the best possible performance from the Web. This second edition has been significantly expanded, including new chapters on Web site architecture, security, and reliability. The book also includes many more examples and graphs of real-world performance problems and their solutions, and it has been updated for Java 2. Web Performance Tuning is for anyone who has waited too long for a Web page to display, or watched the servers they manage slow to a crawl.
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As long as there's been a Web, people have been trying to make it faster. The maturation of the Web has meant more users, more data, more features, and consequently longer waits on the Web. Improved performance has become a critical factor in determining the usability of the Web in general and of individual sites in particular. Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition is about getting the best possible performance from the Web. This book isn't just about tuning web server software; it's also about streamlining web content, getting optimal performance from a browser, tuning both client and server hardware, and maximizing the capacity of the network itself. Web Performance Tuning hits the ground running, giving concrete advice for quick results -- the "blunt instruments" for improving crippled performance right away. The book then shifts gears to give a conceptual background of the principles of computing performance. The latter half of the book examines each element of a web transaction -- from client to network to server -- to find the weak links in the chain and show how to strengthen them. In this second edition, the book has been significantly expanded to include:

New chapters on Web site architecture, security, reliability, and their impact on performance
Detailed discussion of scalability of Java on multi-processor servers
Perl scripts for writing web performance spiders that handle logins, cookies, SSL, and more
Detailed instructions on how to use Perl DBI and the open source program gnuplot to generate performance graphs on the fly
Coverage of rstat, a Unix-based open source utility for gathering performance statistics remotely

In addition, the book includes many more examples and graphs of real-world performance problems and their solutions, and has been updated for Java 2. This book is for anyone who has waited too long for a web page to display, or watched the servers they manage slow to a crawl. It's about making the Web more usable for everyone.

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Book details

Title: Web Performance Tuning
Subtitle: Speeding up the Web
Second Edition: March 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00172-X
Pages: 480

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"Every web designer or server administrator needs this book. From the moment I picked it up to read, I couldn't put it down. When I had finished reading it, I wanted to pick it up and start reading it a second time...I'm giving this book 5 STARS for the excellent advice that it gives on fine tuning every aspect of website administration."
--Diana Arsenault, CCPCUG, Dec 2002

"This book still scores highly on the sections which are general in their scope, particularly the new chapters which have been written for this edition. The more specific sections feel dates, and are likely to further age extremely quickly. Overall the book is still a good source for advice on identifying performance bottlenecks and suggesting ways to tune the infrastructure to eliminate them."
--Joel Smith, News@UKUUG, October 2002

"If you want to squeeze the maximum performance from your web server, this book will help you make your web site sing...Everything from low volume sites (1-10,000 hits/day) to high (over 1 million hits/day) can benefit from this in-depth book. Techniques that may work well at lower traffic levels can fall apart once the server heats up. Killelea takes a pragmatic approach to performance tuning with an emphasis on actual testing and measurement rather than overplanning, mathematical modeling, and simple yet expensive solutions."
--WebReference.com, June 6, 2002

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