The state of Drupal performance and scalability

Submitted by davidstrauss on June 29, 2009 - 06:06

Your session in a few words:

Date:

September 3, 2009 - 16:10 - 17:00

Room:

Adenauer

Track:

Code it, test it, deploy it

Session Type:

Lecture

Level of expertise:

Intermediate

Language:

English

Drupal 7 has made major leaps forward for performance and scalability. In this presentation, we'll walk through the advances made, the engineering/testing behind them, how they help medium and large sites, and the kind of infrastructure required to deploy them.

Some current ideas:

DB-TNG's database replication support, including session flagging for not using replicated servers
Modular storage back-ends for fields
Modular query engines for Views (including Solr)
Reverse proxy caching headers
Lazy session creation for anonymous users
Tracker 2 in core (#105639)
The new locking framework (#251792)
The drupal_render() cache pattern (#495968)
Standarized, pluggable entity loading (#460320)

Co presenters:

Damien Tournoud

Conference is sold out

David Strauss

Four Kitchens co-founder David Strauss has gained world-class Drupal experience from his work with the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, The Economist, Mansueto Ventures, Lifetime TV, NBC-Universal, and the Internet Archive. David is well-known in the Drupal community as an expert in scalability and database optimization and is a member of the Drupal.org Infrastructure Team. He has attended several Drupal coding sprints and served as a chair on the session committee for Drupalcon DC 2009 and is a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association.