Phoenix Fast & Safe: Building Secure, High-Performance Web Applications is a practical guide for developers, architects, and engineering teams who want to create web applications that are both exceptionally fast and resilient against modern security threats. Subrat Gupta explains how to design, build, test, and optimize production-ready systems without treating performance and security as competing goals. From architecture and scalability to secure coding, authentication, authorization, data protection, API security, and deployment, this book presents practical principles for developing reliable web experiences. Readers will explore techniques for reducing latency, improving throughput, managing resources efficiently, and preparing applications for traffic growth. The guidance also covers common vulnerabilities, defensive development practices, secure configuration, monitoring, and performance-focused testing. Whether you are working with a new product, modernizing a legacy platform, or preparing an application for cloud deployment, Phoenix Fast & Safe offers a clear framework for making better technical decisions. Real-world considerations help connect foundational concepts with day-to-day engineering challenges, enabling readers to identify bottlenecks, reduce risk, and build systems users can trust. Ideal for software developers, full-stack engineers, DevOps professionals, technical leads, and computer science students, this book is a useful companion for anyone pursuing secure web development, high-performance computing, scalable architecture, and dependable application delivery.
Phoenix Fast & Safe: Building Secure, High-Performance Web Applications is a practical guide for developers, architects, and engineering teams who want to create web applications that are both exceptionally fast and resilient against modern security threats. Subrat Gupta explains how to design, b...