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Speed up and scale out your web applications with Memcached Overview Set up the Memcached service on your server or development machine Use Memcached on your Java, Ruby, Python, and PHP applications Full of practical, real-world examples and easy-to-follow explanations In Detail Web application performance is no longer a non-functional requirement, but an implicit condition for an engaging user experience. As a result, responsive and highly scalable applications are becoming a necessity. Memcached is a high-performance distributed memory caching system built to speed up dynamic web applications by offloading pressure from your database. Getting Started with Memcached is a hands-on, comprehensive guide to the Memcached service and its API ...

Build a fully-featured and scalable search application using PHP to unlock the search functions provided by Solr Overview Understand the tools that can be used to communicate between PHP and Solr, and how they work internally Explore the essential search functions of Solr such as sorting, boosting, faceting, and highlighting using your PHP code Take a look at some advanced features of Solr such as spell checking, grouping, and auto complete with implementations using PHP code In Detail The Search tool is a very powerful for any website. No matter what type of website, the search tool helps visitors find what they are looking for using key words and narrow down the results using facets. Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source enterprise sea...

Design and build professional websites with Zurb Foundation's mobile-first responsive framework Overview Get up to speed quickly with Foundation's responsive grid system Integrate easy-to-configure CSS components into your website Add powerful JavaScript plugins to your web pages In Detail Every web designer needs a toolkit. From text editors to graphics programs, from table structures to fluid style sheets, the web designer has many tools and techniques to choose from. Zurb's Foundation framework is an excellent kit for today's web designer. It's fluid, it's easy to work with, it has plenty of components, and most importantly, you can apply your creativity to make your very own designs. Zurb's Foundation 4 is a practical, easy-to-use toolkit...

Learn how to use Clojure language with examples and develop domain-specific languages on the go Overview Explore DSL concepts from existing Clojure DSLs and libraries Bring Clojure into your Java applications as Clojure can be hosted on a Java platform A tutorial-based guide to develop custom domain-specific languages In Detail Clojure is a very new and rapidly growing language that runs on top of the JVM. The language being hosted on the Java platform allows for Clojure applications to use existing Java components. Although there are objects in Clojure, the language is not object oriented. "Clojure for Domain-specific Languages" is an example-oriented guide to building custom languages. Many of the core components of Clojure are covered...

Optimize high-scale data by tuning and troubleshooting using Cassandra Overview Install and set up a multi datacenter Cassandra Troubleshoot and tune Cassandra Covers CAP tradeoffs, physical/hardware limitations, and helps you understand the magic Tune your kernel, JVM, to maximize the performance Includes security, monitoring metrics, Hadoop configuration, and query tracing In Detail Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source NoSQL database. Cassandra is perfect for managing large amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across multiple data centers and the cloud. Cassandra delivers linear scalability and performance across many commodity servers with no single point of failure. This book starts by explaining how to ...