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:
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.
Bruno Skvorc is a coder from Croatia with Master's Degrees in Computer Science and English Language and Literature. He's the editor of SitePoint's PHP channel and a developer evangelist for Diffbot.com. He avoids legacy code like the plague and when picking projects makes sure they'e as cutting edge as possible. He's a treadmill desk enthusiast and active (board)gamer who sometimes blogs.
Zoran Antolovic is an engineer and problem solver from Croatia. CTO, Startup Owner, writer, motivational speaker and usually the good guy. He adores productivity, hates distractions and sometimes overengineers things.
Claudio Ribeiro is a software developer, traveler and writer from Lisbon. When he is not developing some cool feature at Fixeads he is probably backpacking somewhere in the world or messing with some obscure framework.
Tonino is a web developer and IT consultant who's dived through open-source code for over a decade. He's also a crypto enthusiast, Linux fan, and moderate libertarian.