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One thing that is exciting to me, is how much we appear to have gotten right in Drupal 8. The other day, for example, I stumbled upon a recent article from the LinkedIn engineering team describing how...
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This week's Grammy Awards is one of the best examples of the high traffic events websites that Acquia is so well known for. This marks the fourth time we hosted the Grammys' website. We saw close to 5...
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With the release of Drupal 5, you might be wondering which version of Drupal is faster -- the latest release in the Drupal 4 series, or the new Drupal 5?Experimental setupI setup a Drupal 4.7 site with...
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To deal with Drupal's growth, we're adding a second database server to drupal.org which is useful for at least two reasons. First, we'll be able to handle more SQL queries as we can distribute them...
View ArticleYSlow
Yahoo! released YSlow, a Firefox extension that integrates with the popular Firebug tool. YSlow was originally developed as an internal tool at Yahoo! with the help of Steve Souders, Chief Performance...
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View ArticleDrupal in the cloud
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View ArticleConsumer Search running Drupal
ConsumerSearch.com has been redesigned and is now running Drupal. The site is a part of the About.com Group, a subsidiary of The New York Times Company.ConsumerSearch.com gets about 5.5M unique...
View ArticleMaking Drupal 8 fly
In my travels to talk about Drupal, everyone asks me about Drupal 8's performance and scalability. Modern websites are much more dynamic and interactive than 10 years ago, making it more difficult to...
View ArticleBigPipe, no longer just for the top 50 websites
One thing that is exciting to me, is how much we appear to have gotten right in Drupal 8. The other day, for example, I stumbled upon a recent article from the LinkedIn engineering team describing how...
View ArticleWhen traffic skyrockets your site shouldn't go down
This week's Grammy Awards is one of the best examples of the high traffic events websites that Acquia is so well known for. This marks the fourth time we hosted the Grammys' website. We saw close to 5...
View ArticleDrupal vs Joomla: performance
Which content management system is faster? Drupal or Joomla?Experimental setupI used the "Apache, mod_php, PHP4, APC" configuration from previous benchmark experiments to compare the performance of...
View ArticleDrupal 5: performance
With the release of Drupal 5, you might be wondering which version of Drupal is faster -- the latest release in the Drupal 4 series, or the new Drupal 5?Experimental setupI setup a Drupal 4.7 site with...
View ArticleScaling with MySQL replication
To deal with Drupal's growth, we're adding a second database server to drupal.org which is useful for at least two reasons. First, we'll be able to handle more SQL queries as we can distribute them...
View ArticleYSlow
Yahoo! released YSlow, a Firefox extension that integrates with the popular Firebug tool. YSlow was originally developed as an internal tool at Yahoo! with the help of Steve Souders, Chief Performance...
View ArticleDatabase replication lag
As explained in an earlier blog post, we recently started using MySQL master-slave replication on drupal.org in order to provide the scalability necessary to accommodate our growing demands. With one...
View ArticleDrupal in the cloud
It is not always easy to scale Drupal -- not because Drupal sucks, but simply because scaling the LAMP stack (including Drupal) takes no small amount of skill. You need to buy the right hardware,...
View ArticleConsumer Search running Drupal
ConsumerSearch.com has been redesigned and is now running Drupal. The site is a part of the About.com Group, a subsidiary of The New York Times Company.ConsumerSearch.com gets about 5.5M unique...
View ArticleMaking Drupal 8 fly
In my travels to talk about Drupal, everyone asks me about Drupal 8's performance and scalability. Modern websites are much more dynamic and interactive than 10 years ago, making it more difficult to...
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