This group provides an area to share information about Drupal in the enterprise. Areas for discussion might include the integration of Drupal with traditional enterprise applications such as ERP and CRM; the use of Drupal as an enterprise web content framework; Drupal's place within the enterprise architecture; or even the use of Drupal as an enterprise architecture tool.
Other Drupal groups of interest to the enterprise include High Performance and Best Practices in Security.
Step-by-step: Setting up Project Mercury (Varnish, Apache, APC, Memcached and Solr)
THIS DOCUMENTATION IS DEPRECATED!
Refer to the new wiki for better docs. This page is here for posterity.
Here are step-by-step instructions for building Project Mercury on a fresh server using the configuration manager BCFG2. Project Mercury has been developed on AWS ec2 but should work on Rackspace and many other VPSs. We have public AMIs available of Ubuntu Jaunty versions (in both 32 and 64 bit flavors) - see http://getpantheon.com.
This is a wiki page which I'll will try to keep up to date as the project evolves. Please feel free to comment, add notes, and correct any mistakes you see. For the BCFG2 version of these instructions (and pre-made, ready-to-go AMIs), see http://groups.drupal.org/node/50408
3/2/10: 1.0 updates
1/11/10 Explain how to configure the external caching backend on Drupal.
12/2/09 Mercury 0.81
11/19/09 Mercury 0.8-Beta
11/14/09 Restructured instructions
10/22/09 Configuration file download instructions
10/8/09 Added Apache Solr to the install
9/20/09 Numerous fixes and the new pressflow BZR location
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.
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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.
Read moreProject 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.
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'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
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.
Read moreIf 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.
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"packaging" systems for drupal deployment
Debs, rpm, solaris "packages" -- what do you use to update drupal on your giant cluster of servers?
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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).
Read more3 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
We got interviews from:
Read moreDrupal For Enterprise
We are delighted to invite you to Drupal For Enterprise, an event focusing on the common benefits and challenges of using Drupal in a business organisation.
Whether you're evaluating Drupal or are already using it, this event is a great opportunity to learn from the experience of other organisations, put your questions to the experts, and connect with the Drupal community.
Presentations
We welcome suggestions for presentations - even better, do you have a talk you'd like to give?
These are the topics we plan to cover:
Read moreSourceforge 2008 Community choice award finalists: Best project,for Enterprise, for Educators, Change the world, for Developers
Drupal has been selected as a finalist for the SourceForge 2008 Community awards in 5 categories.
Special thanks to Nicholas Thompson, Michelle, Rahul and others in who were involved in the nomination and promotion of this award: http://drupal.org/node/267469
Read moreEnterprise 2.0 Expo/ Enterprise2Open - Free to attend
http://www.enterprise2conf.com/
Demo pavilion pass are available for free here: http://www.enterprise2conf.com/exhibition/demo-pavilion.php
Tuesday, June 10
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Wednesday, June 11
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Enterprise2Open unconference: http://www.enterprise2conf.com/conference/e2open.php
If you are interested in presenting at Enterprise 2 Open you should be able to sign up at the event itself.
Vote in Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad contest: Round 2 with a new Drupal ecosystem section
Acquia would like to thank everyone who voted for our 1 minute video submission for the Enterprise 2.0 contest. We've now made it to the second round and we've added an important section to the video, the Drupal Ecosystem, with dozens of Drupal consulting company logo's.
How did we select these logo's to represent the Drupal ecosystem:
1) Looked for sponsors of Drupalcon Barcelona and Drupalcon Boston
2) Drupal Association Organization Members
Xapian Search for Drupal - Metrics and Benchmarks
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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Read moreVote for Drupal in Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad contest
Acquia has submitted a 1 minute video about Drupal to the Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad contest. The video site, is actually a Drupal site. If you get a chance to watch this one minute video and vote, it will help give Drupal some exposure at Enterprise 2.0.
http://launchpad.enterprise2conf.com/node/14
Read moreSelenium and Drupal
First, for those that don't want to read the full post, here's the "30-second elevator speech":
This post to to discuss using Seleinum with Drupal. Specifically using Maven to run the selenium tests and writing the Selenium tests in Java.
The example code be downloaded from the Workhabit Inc. public repository here: https://svn.workhabit.com/svn/public/drupal/selenium/trunk
One must have the following installed to run:
1. Firefox
2. Java 1.5+
3. Maven
All 3 are easy to install and aquire. Once you download the code from the repository, you can just navigate to the directory and run:
Site architecture patterns, Install Profiles, & automated site configuration
EDIT: There will be a BOF discussion tomorrow, Wed morning at 9:00am here at Drupalcon. Please join the discussion and share your thoughts.
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Potential RDF use cases for Drupal
Following up on my previous post introducing the in-progress RDF API for Drupal 6.x, I'm going to be, bit by bit, posting some of the materials that I've earlier put together internally for the project this is being developed for. Development of this project is supported through M.C. Dean and MakaluMedia on behalf of their clients.
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