Tagged “performance”

1. Let's Be Upfront About Performance at DrupalCamp NJ February 2012

   I just presented "Let's Be Upfront About Performance" as a session at the inaugural DrupalCamp NJ.

   My presentation is embedded below. Go forth and make fast websites!

2. Coat Your Website in Varnish July 2011

   Last week at the Drupal NYC meetup, I gave a presentation about the Varnish reverse proxy cache.

3. Everything Old is New Again October 2009

   It's time for my quarterly blogging drive, and to start, here's some information on my ever-increasing need to try out cool web technologies.

4. Need for Speed June 2009

   I've been doing some pretty exciting things recently with website performance. I always disliked doing IT work in the past, but the challenge of setting a server up to be able to withstand crushing traffic is now quite intriguing to me.

5. Scaling Drupal: Not IF... HOW March 2009

   What do Fast Company, The Big Money, The Onion, Lifetime Television, SonyBMG, Flex.org, DressupChallenge.com, and NowPublic have in common?

   All are popular sites, some with traffic of a million or more pageviews a day. But there's more.

   They all run on Drupal.

   Some people still ask if Drupal can scale. We say, "It's not a question of IF, but HOW".

   Come and hear how we scale sites like myLifetime.com, TheBigMoney.com, and DressUpChallenge.com.

6. Speed Up and Version Your Views November 2008

   Since getting started with Drupal over two years ago, the sites I’ve built with it have naturally gotten bigger and bigger in scope. As your sites get bigger and bigger, you always look for ways to keep your site running as smoothly as possible, and this usually ends up meaning getting rid of queries wherever you can.

   One feature of Views which is often used by module developers is the ability of a module to expose a set of default views. The calendar module, for example, provides a default calendar view in both its Drupal 5 and 6 versions. This is an obvious asset for developers of contributed modules: if your module interfaces with Views, it makes sense to provide a default view that users can modify.

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