Best Practices for Building a High Performance and Scalable Drupal Site

Join Kieran Lal, Acquia's Drupal community adventure guide, for a review of best practices to insure Drupal site scalability and performance. He will review the latest techniques for insuring scalability based on Acquia's expertise in supporting customer sites. Drupal site performance is often a combination of monitoring and tuning several underlying technologies. Key takeways from the Webinar will include:

• overview of Web scaling technologies such as reverse proxies, memcache, Web server clustering, and master-slave databases
• best practice architectures for scalability for Drupal sites of various sizes, including the highest traffic Drupal site - myLifetime.com
• a performance checklist and recommended tools for debugging Drupal site performance
• best practices and frontline lessons learned by the Acquia support team based on improving the performance of sites such as MotherJones.com

Kieran is a member of the Drupal.org infrastructure team, a Drupal website which supports approximately 30 million page views per month.