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High Performance Browser Networking

Author : Ilya Grigorik
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449344720
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Book Synopsis High Performance Browser Networking by : Ilya Grigorik

Download or read book High Performance Browser Networking written by Ilya Grigorik and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications—including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket, and WebRTC. Author Ilya Grigorik, a web performance engineer at Google, demonstrates performance optimization best practices for TCP, UDP, and TLS protocols, and explains unique wireless and mobile network optimization requirements. You’ll then dive into performance characteristics of technologies such as HTTP 2.0, client-side network scripting with XHR, real-time streaming with SSE and WebSocket, and P2P communication with WebRTC. Deliver superlative TCP, UDP, and TLS performance Speed up network performance over 3G/4G mobile networks Develop fast and energy-efficient mobile applications Address bottlenecks in HTTP 1.x and other browser protocols Plan for and deliver the best HTTP 2.0 performance Enable efficient real-time streaming in the browser Create efficient peer-to-peer videoconferencing and low-latency applications with real-time WebRTC transports

High Performance Web Sites

Author : Steve Souders
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596550693
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis High Performance Web Sites by : Steve Souders

Download or read book High Performance Web Sites written by Steve Souders and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines. The rules in High Performance Web Sites explain how you can optimize the performance of the Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images that you've already built into your site -- adjustments that are critical for any rich web application. Other sources of information pay a lot of attention to tuning web servers, databases, and hardware, but the bulk of display time is taken up on the browser side and by the communication between server and browser. High Performance Web Sites covers every aspect of that process. Each performance rule is supported by specific examples, and code snippets are available on the book's companion web site. The rules include how to: Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets at the Top Put Scripts at the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions Make JavaScript and CSS External Reduce DNS Lookups Minify JavaScript Avoid Redirects Remove Duplicates Scripts Configure ETags Make Ajax Cacheable If you're building pages for high traffic destinations and want to optimize the experience of users visiting your site, this book is indispensable. "If everyone would implement just 20% of Steve's guidelines, the Web would be adramatically better place. Between this book and Steve's YSlow extension, there's reallyno excuse for having a sluggish web site anymore." -Joe Hewitt, Developer of Firebug debugger and Mozilla's DOM Inspector "Steve Souders has done a fantastic job of distilling a massive, semi-arcane art down to a set of concise, actionable, pragmatic engineering steps that will change the world of web performance." -Eric Lawrence, Developer of the Fiddler Web Debugger, Microsoft Corporation

Web Performance Tuning

Author : Patrick Killelea
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 9780596001728
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Web Performance Tuning by : Patrick Killelea

Download or read book Web Performance Tuning written by Patrick Killelea and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2002 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Designing for Performance

Author : Lara Callender Hogan
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491903732
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Book Synopsis Designing for Performance by : Lara Callender Hogan

Download or read book Designing for Performance written by Lara Callender Hogan and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a web designer, you encounter tough choices when it comes to weighing aesthetics and performance. Good content, layout, images, and interactivity are essential for engaging your audience, and each of these elements have an enormous impact on page load time and the end-user experience. In this practical book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. To get started, all you need are basic HTML and CSS skills and Photoshop experience. Topics include: The impact of page load time on your site, brand, and users Page speed basics: how browsers retrieve and render content Best practices for optimizing and loading images How to clean up HTML and CSS, and optimize web fonts Mobile-first design with performance goals by breakpoint Using tools to measure performance as your site evolves Methods for shaping an organization’s performance culture

Even Faster Web Sites

Author : Steve Souders
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596555849
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis Even Faster Web Sites by : Steve Souders

Download or read book Even Faster Web Sites written by Steve Souders and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance. Souders' previous book, the bestselling High Performance Web Sites, shocked the web development world by revealing that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side. In Even Faster Web Sites, Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site's performance in three critical categories: JavaScript—Get advice for understanding Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components, and more. Network—Learn to share resources across multiple domains, reduce image size without loss of quality, and use chunked encoding to render pages faster. Browser—Discover alternatives to iframes, how to simplify CSS selectors, and other techniques. Speed is essential for today's rich media web sites and Web 2.0 applications. With this book, you'll learn how to shave precious seconds off your sites' load times and make them respond even faster. This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.

Web Performance in Action

Author : Jeremy Wagner
Publisher : Manning
ISBN 13 : 9781617293771
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (937 download)

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Book Synopsis Web Performance in Action by : Jeremy Wagner

Download or read book Web Performance in Action written by Jeremy Wagner and published by Manning. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Web Performance in Action is your companion guide to making websites faster. You'll learn techniques that speed the delivery of your site's assets to the user, increase rendering speed, decrease the overall footprint of your site, as well as how to build a workflow that automates common optimization techniques. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Nifty features, hip design, and clever marketing are great, but your website will flop if visitors think it's slow. Network conditions can be unpredictable, and with today's sites being bigger than ever, you need to set yourself apart from the competition by focusing on speed. Achieving a high level of performance is a combination of front-end architecture choices, best practices, and some clever sleight-of-hand. This book will demystify all these topics for you. About the Book Web Performance in Action is your guide to making fast websites. Packed with "Aha!" moments and critical details, this book teaches you how to create performant websites the right way. You'll master optimal rendering techniques, tips for decreasing your site's footprint, and technologies like HTTP/2 that take your website's speed from merely adequate to seriously fast. Along the way, you'll learn how to create an automated workflow to accomplish common optimization tasks and speed up development in the process. What's Inside Foolproof performance-boosting techniques Optimizing images and fonts HTTP/2 and how it affects your optimization workflow About the Reader This book assumes that you're familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Many examples make use of Git and Node.js. About the Author Jeremy Wagner is a professional front-end web developer with over ten years of experience. Foreword by Ethan Marcotte. Table of Contents Understanding web performance Using assessment tools Optimizing CSS Understanding critical CSS Making images responsive Going further with images Faster fonts Keeping JavaScript lean and fast Boosting performance with service workers Fine-tuning asset delivery Looking to the future with HTTP/2 Automating optimization with gulp

High Performance Mobile Web

Author : Maximiliano Firtman
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491913665
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Book Synopsis High Performance Mobile Web by : Maximiliano Firtman

Download or read book High Performance Mobile Web written by Maximiliano Firtman and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimize the performance of your mobile websites and webapps to the extreme. With this hands-on book, veteran mobile and web developer Maximiliano Firtman demonstrates which aspects of your site or app slow down the user’s experience, and what you can do to achieve lightning-fast performance. There’s much at stake: if you want to boost your app’s conversion rate, then tackling performance issues is the best way to start. Learn tools and techniques for working with responsive web design, images, the network layer, and many other ingredients—plus the metrics to check your progress. Ideal for web developers and web designers with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTTP experience, this is your guide to superior mobile web performance. You’ll dive into: Emulators, simulators, and other tools for measuring performance Basic web performance concepts, including metrics, charts, and goals How to get real data from mobile browsers on your real networks APIs and specs for measuring, tracking and improving web performance Insights and tricks for optimizing the first view experience Ways to optimize post-loading experiences and future visits Responsive web design and its performance challenges Tips for extreme performance to achieve best conversion rates How to work with web views inside native apps

Modern Web Performance Optimization

Author : Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 9781484265277
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (652 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern Web Performance Optimization by : Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar

Download or read book Modern Web Performance Optimization written by Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar and published by Apress. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Web-based platforms have become vehicles for enterprises to realize their digital strategy and are key to positive user engagement. The performance of these platforms can make the difference between an effective sale and a negative review. There exist several tools and methodologies to enhance your digital platform’s performance, and Modern Web Performance Optimization has arrived to walk you through them with an expert’s guidance. Author Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar breaks the study of web performance optimization down into four digestible, applicable dimensions: performance patterns, framework and methods, process and tools, and the modern web. This multi-faceted approach ensures a broad optimization of your platforms and avoids the typical pitfalls of neglecting essential steps that so many often do. Shivakumar analyzes web performance ecosystem components such as validation, governance, metrics, key performance indicators, assessments, and monitoring, just to name a few. The book discusses reference architectures and relevant tools and technologies for successfully implementing a best practices–driven solution. Modern web frameworks such as HTML5 and PWA are also covered. Modern Web Performance Optimization puts readers from any level of experience at ease. Accessible templates, real-world case studies, and your very own performance optimization checklist make this book an engaging and interactive learning opportunity for platform owners across industries. Developers, engineers, project managers, and more are set up for long-term success with Modern Web Performance Optimization at their fingertips. What You Will Learn Analyze the performance optimization across end-to-end layers Utilize a comprehensive web optimization framework for digital projects Implement proven methods, best practices, and tools for web performance optimization Who This Book Is ForSystem administrators, front-end developers, professionals looking to understand how to optimize their online presence

Using WebPageTest

Author : Rick Viscomi
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491902817
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Book Synopsis Using WebPageTest by : Rick Viscomi

Download or read book Using WebPageTest written by Rick Viscomi and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn basic and advanced uses of WebPagetest, the performance measurement tool for optimizing websites. This practical guide shows users new to this tool how run tests and interpret results, and helps experienced users gain a better and more thorough understanding of hidden features in WebPagetest that make testing easier. Written by WebPagetest power users and performance experts, this book will help web developers and frontend engineers solve the problem of slow sites. Topics include: Basic test setup—shows beginners how to get meaningful results Advanced test setup—provides another level of technical depth by explaining features not thoroughly documented at webpagetest.org Analysis of results—helps you understand of how to interpret test results Private instance setup—teaches power users the intricacies of the webpagetest private instance and how it works API and external tools—provides a detailed reference for the API and demonstrates tools already using the API to extend WebPagetest

Time Is Money

Author : Tammy Everts
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491928816
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Book Synopsis Time Is Money by : Tammy Everts

Download or read book Time Is Money written by Tammy Everts and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to convince your organization to conduct a web performance upgrade, this concise book will strengthen your case. Drawing upon her many years of web performance research, author Tammy Everts uses cases studies and other data to explain how web page speed and availability affect a host of business metrics. You’ll also learn how our human neurological need for quick, uncomplicated processes drives these metrics. Ideal for managers, this book’s case studies demonstrate how Walmart, Staples.com, Mozilla, and other organizations significantly improved conversion rates through simple upgrades. Find out why happy customers return, while frustrated users can send your metrics—and your domain—into a tailspin. You’ll explore: What happens neurologically when people encounter slow or interrupted processes How page speed affects metrics in retail and other industries, from media sites to SaaS providers Why internal applications are often slower than consumer apps, and how this hurts employee morale and productivity Common performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them How to pioneer new metrics, and create an organizational culture of performance

Web Performance Daybook Volume 2

Author : Stoyan Stefanov
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449337686
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Book Synopsis Web Performance Daybook Volume 2 by : Stoyan Stefanov

Download or read book Web Performance Daybook Volume 2 written by Stoyan Stefanov and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance is critical to the success of any website, and help with using today’s new tools is key. In this remarkable guide, 32 leading web performance experts offer practical tips, techniques, and advice for optimizing your site’s user experience. Originally written for an online calendar, this collection of articles will inspire you to squeeze every ounce of performance from your site—whether you’re a web developer, mobile developer, or web designer. Check the table of contents and you’ll be convinced. In order of appearance, Web Performance Daybook authors include: Patrick Meenan Nicholas Zakas Guy Podjarny Stoyan Stefanov Tim Kadlec Brian Pane Josh Fraser Steve Souders Betty Tso Israel Nir Marcel Duran Éric Daspet Alois Reitbauer Matthew Prince Buddy Brewer Alexander Podelko Estelle Weyl Aaron Peters Tony Gentilcore Matthew Steele Bryan McQuade Tobie Langel Billy Hoffman Joshua Bixby Sergey Chernyshev JP Castro Pavel Paulau David Calhoun Nicole Sullivan James Pearce Tom Hughes-Croucher Dave Artz

Jump Start Web Performance

Author : Craig Buckler
Publisher : SitePoint Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 109812278X
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (981 download)

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Book Synopsis Jump Start Web Performance by : Craig Buckler

Download or read book Jump Start Web Performance written by Craig Buckler and published by SitePoint Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite working on the web every day, few developers have a good word to say about the monster they've created. Achingly slow sites with annoying overlays, cookie agreements, instant notifications, and obtrusive ads litter the web landscape. While there may be some excuses for complex web applications, there's little justification for sluggish content-based and ecommerce sites. People are notoriously impatient, and an unresponsive site receives fewer visitors and conversions. This practical, short book provides advice, tips, and best practice for improving website performance, ranging from quick, five-minute configuration changes to major website overhauls. We primarily concentrate on front-end activities and server configurations to optimize the code delivered to a browser. Some back-end tips are provided, but this is often specific to your application, framework, database, and usage patterns. Server-side performance can often be improved with additional or more powerful computing resources. Ideally, everyone involved in a project would consider performance from the start. Somewhat understandably, that rarely occurs, because no one can appreciate the speed of a website or application before it's been created. Many of the tips contained in this book can therefore be applied after your project has been delivered.

Complete Web Monitoring

Author : Alistair Croll
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596551355
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis Complete Web Monitoring by : Alistair Croll

Download or read book Complete Web Monitoring written by Alistair Croll and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you really understand your online presence? Are you confident that visitors can use your website? Do you know their motivations? How do online communities perceive your company? To innovate and adapt your business quickly, you must know the answers to these questions. Complete Web Monitoring demonstrates how to measure every aspect of your web presence -- including analytics, backend performance, usability, communities, customer feedback, and competitive analysis -- whether you're running an e-commerce site, a community, a media property, or a Software-as-a-Service company. This book's concrete examples, clear explanations, and practical recommendations make it essential for anyone who runs a website. With this book you will: Discover how visitors use and interact with your site through web analytics, segmentation, conversions, and user interaction analysis Find out your market's motivations with voice-of-the-customer research Measure the health and availability of your website with synthetic testing and real-user monitoring Track communities related to your online presence, including social networks, forums, blogs, microblogs, wikis, and social news aggregators Understand how to assemble this data into clear reports tailored to your organization and audience You can't fix what you don't measure. Complete Web Monitoring shows you how to transform missed opportunities, frustrated users, and spiraling costs into online success. "This is a very comprehensive view of just about everything one needs to know about how websites work and what one needs to know about them. I'd like to make this book required reading for every employee at Gomez."-- Imad Mouline, CTO of Gomez

Pro JavaScript Performance

Author : Tom Barker
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430247509
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Pro JavaScript Performance by : Tom Barker

Download or read book Pro JavaScript Performance written by Tom Barker and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance is a hugely important area of web development. If your site runs slowly, users are going to leave, and the problem only grows as your site gets more popular. Pro JavaScript Performance gives you the tools you need to keep your sites smooth and responsive no matter how many users you have. Best practices are changing or becoming redefined continually because of changes and optimizations at the interpreter level, and differences in system configuration, and network speeds. This is exacerbated by the quickened release schedule that most browsers have adopted. Just as important as following best practices is the ability to measure your own performance, so that you can adjust as times change, and so that you can note the subtle nuances in your own code and define your own best practices by your own observations. This book gives you the tools to observe and track the performance of your web applications over time from multiple perspectives, so that you are always aware of, and can fix, all aspects of your performance.

High Performance JavaScript

Author : Nicholas C. Zakas
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449388744
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Book Synopsis High Performance JavaScript by : Nicholas C. Zakas

Download or read book High Performance JavaScript written by Nicholas C. Zakas and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This book reveals techniques and strategies to help you eliminate performance bottlenecks during development. You'll learn how to improve execution time, downloading, interaction with the DOM, page life cycle, and more. Yahoo! frontend engineer Nicholas C. Zakas and five other JavaScript experts—Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, Steven Levithan, Stoyan Stefanov, and Matt Sweeney—demonstrate optimal ways to load code onto a page, and offer programming tips to help your JavaScript run as efficiently and quickly as possible. You'll learn the best practices to build and deploy your files to a production environment, and tools that can help you find problems once your site goes live. Identify problem code and use faster alternatives to accomplish the same task Improve scripts by learning how JavaScript stores and accesses data Implement JavaScript code so that it doesn't slow down interaction with the DOM Use optimization techniques to improve runtime performance Learn ways to ensure the UI is responsive at all times Achieve faster client-server communication Use a build system to minify files, and HTTP compression to deliver them to the browser

Pro Apache JMeter

Author : Sai Matam
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1484229614
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (842 download)

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Book Synopsis Pro Apache JMeter by : Sai Matam

Download or read book Pro Apache JMeter written by Sai Matam and published by Apress. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quickly ramp up your practical knowledge of Apache JMeter for software performance testing and focus on actual business problems. This step-by-step guide covers what you will need to know to write and execute test scripts, and verify the results. Pro Apache JMeter covers almost every aspect of Apache JMeter in detail and includes helpful screenshots and a case study. A performance primer chapter provides a high-level summary of terms used in performance testing on a day-to-day basis that also is useful for non-technical readers. A sample web application Digital Toys has been developed and test scripts are provided for you to try while progressing through the chapters. What You'll Learn Create and execute an Apache JMeter test plan Interpret the results of your test plan Understand distributed testing using Apache JMeter Use Apache JMeter advanced features such as JDBC, REST, FTP, AJAX, SOAP, and mobile performance testing Read a sample case study covering end-to-end planning and execution of a performance testing project Generate and analyze a performance dashboard Who This Book Is For Software performance testing professionals, quality assurance professionals, architects, engineers, project managers, product managers

Performance Studies

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135652597
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Performance Studies by : Richard Schechner

Download or read book Performance Studies written by Richard Schechner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition, the author opens with a discussion of important developments in the discipline. His closing chapter, 'Global and Intercultural Performance', is completely rewritten in light of the post-9/11 world. Fully revised chapters with new examples, biographies and source material provide a lively, easily accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. Among the topics discussed are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. User-friendly, with a special text design, Performance Studies: An Introduction also includes the following features: numerous extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints biographies of key thinkers student activities to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion key reading lists for each chapter twenty line drawings and 202 photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.