Supercharging Drupal

My talk at DrupalCamp Cork about building a high-performance system stack.

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1. freistil.it Supercharging Drupal Jochen Lillich
2. Jochen Lillich @geewiz Sysadmin since 1993 Managing director of freistil IT IT architect for freistilbox
3. Tuning strategies 10 Optimise capacity 20 Minimise cost 30 Measure 40 GOTO 10
5. “They stink?”
6. “They make you cry?”
7. Layers
8. Browser Apache File System Static files
9. Tuning Linux Fast disks File system cache File system layout
10. Tuning Apache MaxClients & Co. KeepAlive CPU with AES support
11. Browser Apache File System Drupal MySQL PHP
12. Tuning MySQL Disk drives InnoDB Buffers tmpdir
13. Optimise your f%#§ing
 SQL queries!
14. Tuning PHP Get many CPU cores Use an opcode cache
15. Browser Apache File System Opcode Cache MySQL PHP APC
16. Tuning APC 64-128 MB Check apc.php
17. Tuning Drupal Compression Aggregation Caches Choose modules wisely
18. Browser Apache Object Cache MySQL PHP memcached memcached
19. Configuration $conf['cache_default_class'] = 'MemCacheDrupal'; ! $conf['cache_class_cache_form'] = 'DrupalDatabaseCache';
20. Browser Apache HTTP Cache Varnish
21. Drupal configuration
22. Cache headers HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:30:00 GMT X-Drupal-Cache: MISS Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:29:45 +0000 Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600 X-Generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org) Vary: Cookie,Accept-Encoding Age: 14 X-Varnish-Cache: HIT X-Varnish-Cache-Hits: 2
23. Tuning Varnish Modules: Purge, Varnish Optimise VCL logic IsVarnishWorking.com
24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/seriousbri/4020277369
25. Browser Apache Search Engine MySQL PHP Solr
26. Tuning Solr Caching # of indexed/stored fields mergeFactor Sharding
27. Other approaches CDN Load balancing
28. Daily practice Management Updates Monitoring Metrics … Know-how
29. We’re hiring!
30. Thanks! Questions? ! jochen@freistil.it