Chapter 10. Caching, Proxies and Improved Performance

We have covered a great deal about the web application that you'll need to connect to data sources, render templates, utilize SSL/TLS, build APIs for single-page applications, and so on.

While the fundamentals are clear, you may find that putting an application built on these guidelines into production would lead to some quick problems, particularly under heavy load.

We've implemented some of the best security practices in the last chapter by addressing some of the most common security issues in web applications. Let's do the same here in this chapter, by applying the best practices against some of the biggest issues of performance and speed.

To do this, we'll look at some of the most common bottlenecks ...

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