18.Oct.2011 at 15:34 by Nikolay Bachiyski
Marcus was fun and gave us a good run through many Drupal-specific and general caching mechanisms.
Drupal Performance and Tools
Marcus Deglos (07.Oct.2011 at 13:45)
Workshop at PHP North West 2011 (English - UK)
Sooner or later, you'll be asked the dreaded question: "Can't you make it faster?"
Like most complex web frameworks, Drupal can at times appear slow, especially when its configuration prevents it from getting the best out of the hardware on which it runs.
There's a range of solutions, from the very simple (turn on simple caching) to the mind-boggling (event-oriented parallelised distributed hierarchical content aggregation, anyone?)
In this tutorial, we'll look at the solutions and tools that are available to most developers, using a standard LAMP stack, and which will improve the performance on 99% of the sorts of sites a typical Drupal agency will build. These tools are fairly well-known at today's technology conferences: tools such as Varnish, Memcached, APC, xdebug and xhprof. The tutorial will focus on configuring and using these with Drupal to be sure you're getting the best performance out of the hardware.
Finally, we'll look at the grail of performance: how to cache fully-authenticated personalised web pages.
Quicklink: https://joind.in/3463
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11.Oct.2011 at 13:50 by Johannes Henrysson
A good overall tutorial of how to make your Drupal site faster, step by step. Really interesting to see actual numbers for each step.
For my part it didn't really add that much new knowledge, more like confirmed existing (which is quite nice to).
Always like live examples during tutorials and sessions, as well as examples for listeners.
Btw, most steps actually apply for most kinds of websites, so a good tutorial even if you don't actually use Drupal.