scalability

I posted some internal benchmarks from the Xapian module we are working on in the Trellon.com blog. This post describes the performance gains using Xapian can have and does some benchmarking on a really, really slow server.

Would love it if someone could verify those results. We are about to take the sample size of the data up to about 1mil nodes and repeat.

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Project "Give" is a concept for a social networking site that allows users to trade services and goods with other users. Users are rated by their contributions and rewarded by their peers via a wish list.

Key components:

1. Rich user profile and permissions
2. User groups
3. Geo-caching of wish list items as well as services and goods donated to the collective.
4. An auction bidding system
5. User ratings

Special consideration given to those with a secondlife.com avatar.
This IS a PAYING job.

Hi Ken --

I know you've deployed MySite on some large sites, and was wondering if you have any specific comments on the scalability aspects of MySite. Caching of data that gets pulled per user necessary? Fine out of the box because each user has a custom page (assume private)?

Feedback and techniques appreciated.

I can't believe I only just found this group. In case you didn't get it through Planet Drupal, at CivicActions I have been working hard on the Witness Hub Map. It is a mashup of google maps with the Hub with enhancements that make it appealing, interactive, fun and (almost) infinitely scalable.

A quick browse through many public-facing websites at the University of Prince Edward Island reveals a growing trend: UPEI has been converting many of its existing websites to Drupal.

Looking for a Drupal developer who shares our passion for open source and our values for giving back. Somebody whose code reaches people.

We are a nonprofit foundation dedicated to spread giving and volunteering among a broad swath of Americans. We fund good works: from clean drinking water in Africa to teens giving a year of service in Washington, DC. Our web projects help us rally people to these causes, and to giving generally.

We're building the tools that put giving where we are: online, on phones, in Facebook and the checkout line. If you build it, they will give.

OpenCraft hosted a 3.5 hour seminar that I presented on Drupal performance tuning and optimization. You can find the slides from the presentation there, which can be useful to some of you.

In case you have not seen it, there are a bunch of articles on Drupal performance tuning and optimization at 2bits.com.

For those looking to have Drupal serve private files efficiently, I've posted a simple core patch that adds X-Sendfile support:
http://drupal.org/node/74472

This group is an attempt to get a serious discussion started around database scalability with Drupal sites.

Right now, Drupal mostly relies on direct connections with mysql to generate Web pages. There is an internal caching mechanism which can help alleviate load, but which introduces some problems of its own (like the user login problem, where users have to reload a page after logging into the system). Typically, mysql optimizations and hardware concerns become a primary area of focus after Drupal has reached its caching limits. While there are not that many massively trafficed Drupal sites around (massive means greater than 100k hits an hour), they are coming, and it would be great to have some defined paths people could follow to build up their sites.