Web Performance Tuning Contributor(s): Killelea, Patrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 059600172X ISBN-13: 9780596001728 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $40.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: This handbook is for anyone responsible for a Web site, from the person running a personal site off a Linux PC at home up to large corporate site managers who wants to improve their performance right now. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Security - Online Safety & Privacy - Computers | Programming - General - Computers | Programming Languages - General |
Dewey: 004.678 |
Physical Information: 1.14" H x 6.8" W x 9.5" (1.60 lbs) 480 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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:
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Contributor Bio(s): Killelea, Patrick: - Patrick Killelea currently works for a major on-line brokerage, but he won't say which one. He spends his days writing monitoring and load testing tools, and proclaiming the web to the be the one true front end because of its simplicity, portability, and performance. He thinks Microsoft is not to be trusted with your back end. Patrick knows there are huge web performance improvements yet to be realized using the details of existing open protocols. He is a fan of T/TCP and hopes one day to set up a connection and deliver an entire web page all in a single packet. Patrick spends his evenings playing with his wife and kids, and is interested in etymologies, obscure religions, and pan-seared salmon with mixed greens and a nice merlot. He likes to get e-mail about web and Java performance issues. Please visit his web site at patrick.net. |