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HTTP/2: Background, Performance Benefits and Implementations

Tonino Jankov covers the background, performance benefits and current implementations of the HTTP/2 protocol.

Improving Performance Perception: On-demand Image Resizing

Image Resizing: Bruno Škvorc shows how to modify a multi-image gallery blog to serve resized versions of images depending on the size of the viewport.

How to Boost Your Server Performance with Varnish

Tonino discusses ways to tune server performance with Varnish Cache, covering how it works, and its features, setup, monitoring and administration.

Optimization Auditing: A Deep Dive into Chrome’s Dev Console

Ahmed Bouchefra offers an in-depth exploration of the features of the Chrome DevTools for measuring performance and debugging your web applications.

Improving Page Load Performance: Pingdom, YSlow and GTmetrix

Tonino Jankov introduces Pingdom, YSlow and GTmetrix and a range of other tools for testing, debugging and fixing website performance.

How to Use Varnish and Cloudflare for Maximum Caching

Bruno Škvorc shows how to implement Varnish as an additional caching layer, along with the Cloudflare CDN, to increase an app's GTMetrix score dramatically.

Server-side Optimization with Nginx and pm-static

Tonino Jankov shows how to optimize on-the-fly thumbnail generation, reducing request time from 28 to 0.7 seconds with Nginx and pm-static.

Using Background Processing to Speed Up Page Load Times

Zoran Antolović explains what background processing is, why it's important, and how to set it up with Beanstalkd and Supervisor.

Improving Performance Perception with Pingdom and GTmetrix

Tonino Jankov shows how to use Pingdom, YSlow and GTmetrix to improve performance on an image gallery blog running on Nginx.

MySQL Performance Boosting with Indexes and Explain

Claudio Ribeiro shows how you can use explain and indexes to spot and remedy possible performance issues with your database before they strike.

PHP-level Performance Optimization with Blackfire

Bruno applies Blackfire to a freshly started project to identify PHP performance bottlenecks, establishing a process of continuous performance testing.

Building an Image Gallery Blog with Symfony Flex: Data Testing

After setting up and organizing files for a Symfony Flex project, Zoran populates the database with data to test application performance.

Building an Image Gallery Blog with Symfony Flex: the Setup

Zoran covers the basics of setting up and organizing files for a Symfony Flex project, including tips, tricks and helper scripts to speed up development.

Apache vs Nginx Performance: Optimization Techniques

Tonino Jankov introduces techniques to improve Apache and Nginx web server performance, explaining the theory behind those techniques.

Making Your Website Faster and Safer with Cloudflare

Tonino Jankov introduces Cloudflare, a website performance and security service, explaining how it works and how to get started using it.