Configuration, Set-Up & Performance

Drupal 7 is upon us and, like so many things, this release makes some significant changes in the way you need to optimize your site for Google and the other search engines. But D6 is still alive and kicking! Come to one session and learn both. Ben Finklea, author of Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization (and its forthcoming sequel), and Ivo Radulovski, a leading SEO consultant in Austria, will show you what needs to be done, what is changing, and how to get on top of the awesomeness that is Drupal SEO.

There are multiple ways to scale your Drupal application and business with cloud computing. The first is being able to horizontally scaling your computing power. The second is being able to leverage the scale that you can get with cloud based data services and content delivery networks (CDN). Imagine taking advantage of all of that on a platform that can place your application in front of hundreds of thousands of potential new customers…

Displaying trending content is important to any site. Luckily for Drupal, we have the perfect tool – the Radioactivity module. In this session we will walk through the most common and even the more innovative use cases for the tool. By the end of this session, you will ace all the various settings and scenarios.

Drupal contains many layers of abstraction. If you're tasked with making a Drupal application perform well, it can be daunting trying to locate all of the possible bottlenecks. Query loggers and print statements are great, but sometimes we need something better, faster and stronger.

Varnish Cache is a web accelerator, also known as a caching reverse proxy or a HTTP accelerator.

This talk focuses on what Varnish does, how Varnish achieves its performance levels, its architecture and future development. Experiences from applying Varnish to varnish-cache.org (a trac site) and varnish-software.com (Drupal 6 Pressflow) is presented.

RRDtool is an established way to log time series data. The algorithm compresses the data to allow you to store it efficiently and averages data to achieve this.

RRDtool is the back-end of many well-known tools such as Cacti, munin, or mrtg, that will be well-known to anybody who has managed a website.

The RRDtool Drupal module was developed by Jeremy Andrews and Gerhard Killesreiter of Tag1 Consulting to allow using RRDtool for measurements that are known by Drupal only and can not be measured externally, such as the invocation of specific hooks.

Cloud computing offers many advantages for hosting Drupal sites but also presents several unique challenges. This talk will provide an overview of how Acquia has built Acquia Hosting and the Drupal-as-a-Service platform Drupal Gardens. As part of this, we'll discuss specific issues we've encountered while building on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the solutions we developed to address them. Topics will include:

• Load balancing: Elastic IP vs. Elastic Load Balancing
• Handling user-uploaded files with multiple web nodes

The speed of light is, unfortunately, still a constant. If your Drupal site has users in San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, Delhi, and Australia (and whose doesn't?), you've had no good way to give all of them fast access to your site. No matter where you put your master database server, most people have to cross an ocean to access it. Perhaps you can put read-only slave databases with local web servers in locations around the world, but then the remote users still have a long haul when they want to log in and create content---which is, after all, what your Drupal site is for.

There are multiple ways to scale your Drupal application and business with cloud computing. The first is being able to horizontally scaling your computing power. The second is being able to leverage the scale that you can get with cloud based data services and content delivery networks (CDN). Imagine taking advantage of all of that on a platform that can place your application in front of hundreds of thousands of potential new customers…

Drupal is increasingly the CMS of choice for large projects. The popularity of the platform means that developers and businesses need robust tools to manage their deployments.

Managing a handful of production Drupal sites is pretty straight forward. When you start deploying or trying to manage hundreds or even thousands of sites, things get complicated very quickly. Dave Hall will explain how he has used Aegir and Drupal to deploy and manage thousands of production websites.