Enterprise
The name of this group may be mis-leading. This group is to discuss ways to integrate Drupal with "3rd party" products (such as MailMan, zfs storage, Hylafax, Asterisk, etc.). I believe Drupal is a very nice alternative to the cluster of overly complicated "Portal" systems in use by businesses today. Please feel free to share your thoughts and ideas.
ERP project
Just a quick note to let people know that the erp project is nearing the launch of beta3, and has had a huge amount of development in the last four months.
If you are interested, now is a good time to check it out. There are certainly rough edges, and things not implemented fully, but we are using it to run our business, so there is a lot in there, and we are improving and finalising things every day.
Expect beta3 early next week, but for now, grab the dev release to try it out.
New Mercury Performance Metrics: Logged-in Users
While Mercury has previously demonstrated the raw power of Varnish to radically accelerate the delivery of cached pages with Pressflow, that's only part of the battle for high performance Drupal. Cached pages need to be generated at least once, and logged in users will be bypassing Varnish when making requests. While it's nice to know you're covered for massive traffic spikes, what about baseline load?
Well, we want to answer that question too. Keep in mind that depending on your module/theme stack, your mileage may vary. A lot. Performance tuning a complex Drupal site for logged-in traffic requires sustained diligence at the application level — code profiling, slow query log review, innovative app-specific caches, etc — as well as hardware and system optimization. However, to set some baseline expectations, we used Jacob Singh's greate starter test suite and checked out a Mercury install on a 512MB Slicehost VPS. The results are quite encouraging.
New 0.51 Mercury AMIs: Many Fixes and 64bit!
I just wanted to post an announcement that we've finally gotten out a point-update of the Project Mercury AMI. Just in case you were wondering if this project would continue, it will! I've been really excited and encouraged by all the positive feedback so far, so keep your ideas and questions coming. The 0.51-Alpha release includes a number of bugfixes and improvements, most notably it:
- Is based on the latest Pressflow including Drupal Core 6.14 and Simpletest 2.9
- Fixes the self-update process to merge correctly and pull from Pressflow's lovely new VCS home on Launchpad
- Includes the rc1 version of cacherouter
- Fixes postfix and s3 metadata issues so there's now a working MTA out of the box
Most importantly for people considering this stack for production deployments, we're now bundling 64-bit images with every release. The quickest way to find the AMIs is to keyword search for "mercury" in your favorite EC2 console. More information and AMI ids are below the fold. Let me know what you think, and what you'd like to see next!
PANTHEON/Mercury BoF Friday at DrupalCon Paris
Just a quick note: we're going to hold a BoF for people interested in Project Mercury (and other packages from PANTHEON) in Paris! It will be after lunch on Friday at 2:50.
Looking forward to talking to those of you who are here at DrupalCon.
Companies using Drupal for business-critical functions?
Hi everyone,
My company is in the process of choosing a solution for replatforming our main site, which is going to be a pretty big project. We're using Drupal for a smaller, simpler publishing site, and Drupal is now on the table for the main site. Some of the other stakeholders have asked what I think is a perfectly valid question that I don't have a ready answer for, so I'm hoping some of you can help me with this one: Are there any medium- to large-sized businesses using Drupal for their main revenue-producing sites?
Project Mercury Benchmarks: 2000+ Requests Per Second!
While working through some issues this weekend and preparing another blog post, I finally got around to doing some comprehensive benchmarking on Project Mercury. In the process, I discovered that the first bottleneck I hit running tests from my desktop was the local (last-mile) internet connection, so I switched to running the tests from another EC2 instance. This means that network is not a factor in my results, giving us a real sense of the raw power behind this stack.
For all these tests, I used the Mercury Alpha4 release on a small ec2 instance, loading a staging copy of Mission Bicycles, which is a good "heavy" example in that it has a lot of modules loaded, including Ubercart and Panels. My goal was to measure throughput and response times under various caching configurations, angling for the best results in terms of pages served per second, and delivery time.
I started by cutting things all the way back to nothing, and then added each layer of the caching infrastructure, running benchmarks at each point. The results are quite eye-opening. Can you say 2000+ requests per second? Read on for the full story.
Step-by-step: Setting up Varnish, Apache, APC and Solr Project Mercury Style
By popular request, here are step-by-step instructions for building the Project Mercury setup on a fresh ec2 image. We have both 32 and 64 bit versions of this AMI available (see http://groups.drupal.org/amazon-web-services-s3-ec2).
This is a wiki page which I will try to keep up to date as the project evolves. Please feel free to comment, add notes, and correct any mistakes you see.
Updated on 9/20/09 with numerous fixes and the new pressflow BZR location!
Updated on 10/8/09 to include adding Apache Solr to the install
updated on 10/22/09 with configuration file download instructions
Updated on 11/14/09 with restructured instructions
Updated on 11/19/09 for Mercury 0.8-Beta
Project Mercury: PressFlow Drupal+Varnish AMI Alpha4 Release
Today I'm glad to announce the latest release in this line of AMI development. This update solves a number of issues and moves us one step closer to a sable beta release. The current AMI ID is ami-c353b2aa, and you can find this AMI by searching for "chapter3" or "mercury" in your AWS console.
For more background information about this project, see my initial g.d.o post and my blog post announcing the initial release.
Below you will find the notes for this release. Also in this post I will include a development roadmap, as well as some more explicit explanation of the techniques I'm using for making the AMI work out of the box.
HTTPS with a load balancer
Howdy.
I'm trying to add support for X-Forwarded-Proto and Front-End-Https to Drupal. Right now, if you try to run an HTTPS-only site on a reverse proxy that talks to your web servers via HTTP, AJAX callbacks fail because Drupal incorrectly generates a callback URL based on the protocol between the proxy and the web server, not between the client and the proxy.
Project Mercury: Pre-configured Drupal+Varnish AMI
Inspired by my own work over the past year with Amazon EC2 and this great post from Eric Hammond at Alestic on how to bundle public AMIs, today I released my first public machine image. I call the project "mercury," and the goal is to combine the power of Varnish and Pressflow Drupal in one easy-to-run package.
Why is this important? Because Varnish fills the same role as the Boost module, except it can handle 1000s of requests per second. Your constrained resources are going to be network and bandwidth. Getting it working well takes a bit of doing, but thanks to PressFlow and support from davidstrauss and DamZ, I've gotten a vanilla system working.
'DRUPAL for Enterprise' event organized by Silicon Valley DRUPAL Group on July 16
Halosys Technologies would like to invite you to 'DRUPAL for Enterprise' event organized by Silicon Valley DRUPAL Group.
The event will be focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in your business, whether you're an established multinational or an ambitious start-up.
The evening will cover a number of topics relevant to the deployment of Drupal in a business, such as:
- Suitability of Drupal for Intranets, Knowledge Management and eCommerce
- How Drupal addresses the scalability and security needs of todays modern Enterprise
LinuxDays 2009
LinuxDays is the first Open Source IT show in Romandie (French-speaking Switzerland), dedicated to promote open source software in businesses.
Multi-master synchronous replication system for MySQL on AWS with Drupal as POC
At MySQLcon I ran into the guys from Codership. They did a 25 minute presentation on how to do multi-master synchronous replication across many instances of MySQL.
In layman's terms.
If you are running 5 Master MySQL databases behind your giant Drupal site, and one of those servers crashes, you won't lose a transaction, and you won't corrupt your logs and destroy your database.
Drupal For Enterprise
Sun Microsystems, Acquia and Code Positive are pleased to invite you to a half day event focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in your business.
Drupal Developer (Expert) | Robert Half Technology
Robert Half Technology is looking for an experienced Drupal developer (Expert Level) for their client located in Atlanta, GA. This opportunity is a 2-3 month contract and is slated to begin as early as week begining Feb 16th, 2009. Our client is looking for someone to be the Subject Matter Expert for all things Drupal. Our client is implementing several web-sites that are inter-dependant and involve many subsites. The candidate will be responsible for developing these sites, site optimization, developing and customizing modules, etc. The ideal candidate must poses the following:
"packaging" systems for drupal deployment
Debs, rpm, solaris "packages" -- what do you use to update drupal on your giant cluster of servers?
SQL Server Code for Drupal 5 Released
I've uploaded my code for a MSSQL-compatible Drupal 5 installation. The only folder that didn't commit properly was modules/color, so I'll try to get that working soon - hopefullly that doesn't prevent you from installing and using a non-color module theme. You can find the files on cvs.drupal.org at /contributions/sandbox/pcorbett/drupal-mssql. You'll need to checkout all the folders and then move the contents of the root_folder_files into your root folder (CVS doesn't let me commit files that aren't contained in a folder).
Drupal / PHP Developer | Vivakos, Inc.
Vivakos, Inc., a leading integrator of open source and open standards based Web applications, is seeking talented and motivated PHP / Drupal developers with 3+ years experience.
Various Drupal positions | Arizona State University
Arizona State University's Applied Learning Technologies Institute (ASU alt^I) is seeking Drupal developers for immediate full-time, part-time and contract-based work. We have a variety of needs including theme development and maintenance, module development and maintenance, site administration / build-out, and testing / quality assurance. For all positions, contributors to the Drupal community are preferred, but not required.
Please send Jeff Beeman (jrbeeman on Drupal.org or jeff.beeman@asu.edu) a private message or email with any questions you may have about the posting.
Posting at: http://snipr.com/33u8s
The description at the posting page is a general one for Drupal developers - please see the details on specific positions we are looking to fill below and apply based on the description(s) you see here.
3 Customers with more than 1000 users in production deployments needed for Gartner social software market assessment
I am working on submitting the Drupal survey response for Gartner's latest research report. We are looking for three customers with 1000 users in a production deployment. Ideally these would be successful deployments and the customer would be willing to have a quick chat with myself to ensure we are providing the right customer reference. Good customer references are the single biggest factor in impacting report recommendations.
From the Gartner Social software market survey
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