O'REILLY: Get the best possible performance from the web -- "Web performance tuning, second edition" released by O'Reilly

Sebastopol, CA -- Unlike the speed of light, which is constant in all frames of reference (remember Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity), the speed with which your browser loads a web page can vary dramatically owing to a number of performance issues. Any reduction in speed can be further a...

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Published inM2 Presswire
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Coventry Normans Media Ltd 24.04.2002
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Killelea, Patrick
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Summary:Sebastopol, CA -- Unlike the speed of light, which is constant in all frames of reference (remember Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity), the speed with which your browser loads a web page can vary dramatically owing to a number of performance issues. Any reduction in speed can be further aggravated by your own perception of speed: as most of us know, a red light in heavy traffic is perhaps the only thing slower than a slowly loading web page. In the second edition of "Web Performance Tuning" (O'[REILLY], US $44.95), author Patrick Killelea tackles performance issues on the web, focusing on the end user's perception of speed, or how quickly the Web satisfies a user's request. This new edition has been significantly expanded to include new chapters on web site architecture, security, and reliability, and their impact on performance. Killelea includes detailed discussion of the scalability of Java on microprocessor servers, Perl scripts for writing web performance spiders, instructions on how to use the Perl DBI and the open source program gnuplot to generate performance graphs. He also covers the use of rstat, a Unix-based open source utility for gathering performance statistics remotely. Essential subject matter for anyone involved in web performance, "Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition" is about making the Web more usable for everyone. O'Reilly books, known for the animals on their covers, occupy a treasured place on the shelves of the developers building the next generation of software. O'Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. From the Internet to XML, open source, .NET, Java, and web services, O'Reilly puts technologies on the map. For more information: http:// www.oreilly.com