The High Performance Drupal meetup now meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month.
Interested in Pressflow, APC, Varnish and memcache? Want to jump from shared or "grid" hosting to VPS or dedicated hosting but aren't sure what to do? Do you just want to get more out of what you currently have and take your Drupal site to the next level?
Meet with friends, have coffee and talk about Drupal performance, scalability and DevOps on the Westside at the Venice Grind between 5-8pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. In the past, we've gone to dinner afterward at nearby restaurants including El Agave and Mitsuwa. You're invited!
To get last-minute updates, sign up by clicking the Signup button below or stay tuned to the comments on this page (or both!).
| When: 5pm to 8pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 |
| Where: Venice Grind at 12224 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066 |
How to prepare for this meetup
Just bring your laptop, a copy of Pro Drupal Development or whatever else you need. We're meeting inside, but bring a jacket just in case we move to the back patio and it's a cold evening.
There's plenty of metered parking on Venice Blvd. as well as some free parking in the back. Parking on the street is free after 8pm, so be sure to feed your meter if you come at 5pm.
If for some reason you need a lot of bandwidth, please note that the free wireless at the Venice Grind is limited to 1Mb per client, so bring your MiFi router, a phone you can tether with or your credit card to get a 5Mb connection for the day.
Topics
This time we'll be focusing on High Performance Drupal. If you're interested in things like Pressflow, APC, Varnish, Pantheon, and memcache, or if you already know about multi-tier infrastructure and want to talk about things like HipHop, CloudFlare, Google Page Speed, Virtualmin, AWS, RightScale, Chef and DevStructure, this is the place for you.
Location
We're meeting in the back patio at the Venice Grind café on the corner of Venice Blvd. and S. Centinela Ave. Their phone number is 310-397-2227.
If it rains or there are too many people and we need more space, we will rendezvous at Coffee Connection, which is right around the corner. We met there once before for a DrupalCamp LA 2009 planning meeting. Stay tuned by clicking the Signup button below or check comments on this page (or both!) before the meetup.
Comments
Will be late but should be able to make it.
I should be able to make it out though if I can, I will be late (likely between 6:30 and 7).
About 15 people have RSVP'd
About 15 people have RSVP'd here and on Meetup.com, so depending on how busy it is at the Grind it's possible there won't be enough space. Please stay tuned to the comments here and @ladrupal for news. We might be leaving together as a group to Coffee Connection (which has more space inside but no free parking in the back and the espresso isn't as good) around the corner.
Meeting notes
Thanks to everyone who made it out to the meetup! The recording we made of installing Commerce Kickstart on Pantheon did not survive, unfortunately, but I'll be glad to present this again at another meetup. Many thanks to Pantheon for the invitation codes and congratulations to the raffle prize winners!
Here are links to the topics we discussed:
http://getpantheon.com
http://drupal.org/project/commerce_kickstart
http://www.openatrium.com
http://sandcamp.org
http://www.larks.la/training/2012/01/26/drupal-scalability-and-performance
http://drupal.org/project/support
http://groups.drupal.org/legal
http://usecod.com
http://groups.drupal.org/node/178249
http://droplabs.net
http://www.mongodb.org
The next High Performance Drupal meetup is scheduled for February 7, 2012. We're meeting on the 1st Tuesday of every month. We had 12 attendees over the course of the evening and I think it's time to look again for a larger venue so that we can have a more traditional format (like we did at the High Performance Drupal meetup at Yahoo in October).
If anyone has ideas or leads for another Westside venue, please post a comment here or contact me. Thanks!