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An Overview of Performance & Scalability

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Drupal can power any site from the lowliest blog to the highest-traffic corporate dot-com. Come learn about the high-end of the spectrum with this comparison of techniques for scaling your site to hundreds of thousands or millions of page views an hour. This Do it with Drupal session with Nate Haug will cover software that you need to make Drupal run at its best, as well as software that acts as a front-end cache (a.k.a Reverse-Proxy Cache) that you can put in-front of your site to offload the majority of the processing work. This talk will cover the following software and architectural concepts:

  • Configuring Apache and PHP
  • MySQL Configuration (with Master/Slave setups)
  • Using Memcache to reduce database load and speed up the site
  • Using Varnish to serve up anonymous content lightning fast
  • Hardware overview for high-availability setups
  • Considering nginx (instead of Apache) for high amounts of authenticated traffic
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About Drupal Sun

Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:

  • Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
  • Facet based on tags, author, or feed
  • Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
  • View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created

See the blog post at Evolving Web

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