Join us at SANDcamp, the San Diego Drupal Camp, on Thursday, January 26, 2012 for a full day of scalability and performance training! This class is being offered at a 50% discount off our normal prices. Sign up today or contact us with any questions.
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In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.
Through this process, we will explain common pitfalls and how to avoid them. By the end of this course you should feel comfortable with the basics of how to setup, configure and tune your Drupal site. You’ll learn the most robust solutions the community has discovered.
What you will learn
- How to improve SEO and Google PageRank by increasing site performance
- Pressflow and Drupal performance settings
- Using Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
- Configuring Varnish
- Setting up Opcode caching with APC
- Enabling Memcache(d)
- MySQL configuration and tuning
- Setting up Apache Solr for Search
Prerequisites
- Shell experience (SSH)
- A basic knowledge of networking
- PHP and Drupal development experience
- Knowledge of SQL query syntax
What to bring
Just bring your laptop. We'll provide the servers you'll get to optimize for performance, but you'll need a computer with a web browser as well as a command line client.
Lunch is being handled by the SANDcamp organizers and is an additional $10.