Getting Drupal in the cloud

Keep hearing about "the cloud" and not sure how to get there? This talk will help you decide when it's time to start reaching for the cloud, and how you can get there.

Agenda:

• Easy pre-cloud optimizations to help speed up your site.
• Need the cloud? What is your server architecture going to look like?
• What software can you use to build and scale? GlusterFS, memcache, nginx, varnish, boost, puppet, chef.
• Speed tuning. Using xhprof to see where your CPU time is spent.
• Seeing results. Using jmeter to benchmark anonymous and authenticated user response time.
• Keeping it running. Using nagios/icinga to monitor server performance.

Presenters:

Jeff Wallace and Jonathan Villemaire-Krajden both work for Evolving Web in Montreal.