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Product type Book

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563582

Pages 406 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Authors (3):

Manuel Spigolon

Maksim Sinik

Matteo Collina

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Fastify Basics

2. Chapter 1: What Is Fastify?

3. Chapter 2: The Plugin System and the Boot Process

4. Chapter 3: Working with Routes

5. Chapter 4: Exploring Hooks

6. Chapter 5: Exploring Validation and Serialization

7. Part 2:Build a Real-World Project

8. Chapter 6: Project Structure and Configuration Management

9. Chapter 7: Building a RESTful API

10. Chapter 8: Authentication, Authorization, and File Handling

11. Chapter 9: Application Testing

12. Chapter 10: Deployment and Process Monitoring for a Healthy Application

13. Chapter 11: Meaningful Application Logging

14. Part 3:Advanced Topics

15. Chapter 12: From a Monolith to Microservices

16. Chapter 13: Performance Assessment and Improvement

17. Chapter 14: Developing a GraphQL API

18. Chapter 15: Type-Safe Fastify

19. Index

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20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Why measure performance?

It sounds nice to go out for dinner and impress our guests by telling them that our APIs serve 10,000 requests per second, but nobody cares about numbers that do not bring any value.

An application’s performance impacts a company’s business in many ways, which are often underestimated because you can’t see a performance issue at first sight as you can with a bug. In fact, performance is responsible for the following:

A slow API, which may result in customers abandoning your website, as documented by this research: https://www.shopify.com/enterprise/site-performance-page-speed-ecommerce
A server in an idle state during high-load traffic, which is a waste of resources that impacts your infrastructure bill
Unoptimized API code, which may waste resources that affect your infrastructure bill

Therefore, to save money and open new business opportunities, it is crucial to measure the application’s performance, but...

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Authors (3)

Manuel Spigolon

Manuel Spigolon is a Senior Backend Developer at Near Form. He is one of core maintainers on the Fastiy team. Manuel has developed and maintained a complex API that serves more than 10 millions world wide.

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Maksim Sinik

Maksim Sinik is a senior engineering manager and a core maintainer of the Fastify framework. He has a decade of experience as a Node.js developer with a strong interest in backend scalability. He designed the architecture and led the development of several service-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms across multiple industries that process hundreds of thousands of requests.

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Matteo Collina

Matteo Collina is the co-founder and CTO of Platformatic who has the goal of removing all friction from backend development. He is also a prolific open source author in the JavaScript ecosystem, and the modules he maintains are downloaded more than 17 billion times a year. Previously, he was the chief software architect at NearForm, the best professional services company in the JavaScript ecosystem. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled Application Platforms for the Internet of Things. Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, focusing on streams, diagnostics, and HTTP. He is also the author of the fast logger, Pino, and the Fastify web framework. Matteo is a renowned international speaker after more than 60 conferences, including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay, to name just a few. Since August 2023, he also serves as a community director on the OpenJS Foundation. In the summer, he loves sailing the Sirocco.

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