Guest speaker: Andrew Kenny, VP of platform engineering at Acquia
High transaction volumes and large numbers of concurrent users can slow down the speediest dating site, or bring e-commerce to a halt. Yet, real-time queries and reporting are a critical requirement for many websites, whether dating, student scheduling or e-commerce.
Padraig O'Sullivan, Software Engineer for Akiban, and Andrew Kenny, VP of platform engineering for Acquia, will show how to overcome these challenges with Akiban and will highlight the case of Gofobo, a popular social entertainment-ticketing portal.
Slow query performance was crushing Gofobo’s custom reports, extending execution times up to 5 minutes, and impacting the overall performance of the website.
In this webinar, Padriag and Andrew will demonstrate:
- An introduction to table-grouping architecture for Drupal
- Overview of Acquia's architecture for MySQL
- How Akiban is able to seamlessly drop into existing MySQL environments running on Acquia to resolve reporting performance issues and accelerate complex queries
- Why Gofobo’s report queries now run 66x faster, consistently, and how all associated errors have been eliminated.