I remember when I first learned how to build websites. I would read books after coming home from my job testing software and I would build the simplest of web pages to practice what I read about. A few nights a week I took continuing education courses on my way toward earning a certificate in website design or something to that effect.
Category: Web Design
MySQL Configuration Tweaks To Improve Site Performance
Sometimes the defaults that come with a product are exactly what you want. Other times they aren’t and you need to make a few changes. When it comes to MySQL, you’ll probably get along just fine if you never change a thing, but you can probably do better than the defaults with a few tweaks.
An Introduction to MySQL Database Performance
It takes time to open a connection to a database, make a query, have the database find the requested data, and send it back to the file that made the request. That’s true even for very simple queries. The time depends on how the database is configured, the hardware on the server, how the data is stored in the tables being searched, and of course, how well the queries have been written.
Improve Your PHP Performance By Upgrading To PHP 7
When your phone starts to feel slow or you find your tablet or laptop taking a long time to perform some task, you start to think about upgrading. Odds are a newer device will come with better specs and a generally more performant device.
Tips for Writing Better Performing PHP Code
Should you use single quotes or double quotes when writing PHP? How about URLs? Should they be absolute or relative? You make choices like these when writing code and your choice will depend on a any number of factors, one of which is performance.