PHP Cache, Object Cache, Client Cache, CDN, Web Cache happens at every levels of the connection. This guide will list and explain the different cache options and software available for a PHP applications.
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Redis VS APCu Object Cache performance test 2018: is it relevant anyway? Redis is fast, but APCu is faster. Unfortunately, APCu is being pushed on the side of the road as an Object cache, and here is why.
There are 3 categories of caching systems on the server side: Memory code caching, Memory object caching, and Disk file caching. Objects can be anything though, including files. By file I mean any file: the generated HTML code that makes a page, a CSS, an image…
This post is about performance between Redis VS Memcached, which are in-memory, networked object cache software.
There are 3 categories of caching systems on the server side: Memory code caching, Memory object caching, and Disk file caching. Objects can be anything though, including files. By file I mean any file: the generated HTML code that makes a page, a CSS, an image…
WebP is a next generation image format spearheaded by Google since 2013, which provides advanced compression options. While it is so much better than legacy formats, it is only supported at the moment of writing (February 2018) by Chrome, and Opera on desktops and Android (see Can I use WebP image format? for more details). As of today, Firefox is not scheduled to support WebP in future versions.
For an overview of WebP format and its shocking compression ration, see WebP: Another Google Project Behind the Scenes.
Practical solution is to serve images conditionally depending on the client browser WebP support. This recipe discusses how to do it with nginx.
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