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Silicon Valley Drupal User Group

08/06/2010 5:30 pm

How to Improve the performance of Drupal sites

Location

2505 Augustine Drive, Suite 100 
UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley 
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Topics Include:

  • Optimization techniques 
  • Performance parameters 
  • Tips and tricks 
  • Do`s and Dont`s associated with performance of Site 
  • Know your server and define it well based on performance expectation 
  • Modules and coding practices specific to Drupal 
Discussions with:
Kieran Lal : Kieran Lal is a Drupal community adventure guide at Acquia and Board Member at Drupal Association.
He also contributes as Drupal.org redesign lead, infrastructure team and fundraiser, admin,security and testing coordinator at Drupal.org

  • Discussion with Kieran Lal. Performance Optimization and latest updates on Drupal 7 and current, Performance improvement features: 

    • Drupal caching: pages, blocks, views, etc 
    • CSS & Javascript aggregation 
    • PHP memory usage 
    • MySQL queries 
    • About Core and performance specific improvements in D7 
    • Module selection and activation 
    • 3rd party scripts and styles 
    • Use of asynchronous requests 
    • Gzip compression 
    • Core search in use 
    • Enabled Apache & PHP modules 
    • Representative page inspection 
    • Load testing 
    • Views query performance 
    • Monitor server load 
    • Database engine 
Mike Mayo : Mike has been an evangelist and a contributor to open source projects, He would field the hosting queries and may demonstrate the best practices and scenarios and discuss eco systems fit for your Drupal sites.
Mike is a mobile developer too and gets the credit to build the Rackspace and Slicehost apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android.
  • Scalability pointers from server side: Chef to setup Drupal clusters in the cloud.
Also, Halosys engineers will demonstrate few recent launches and how they achieved the drastic improvement in performance of Drupal sites.