Blogs tagged with: 'high performance'

Chapter Three is taking part in two pre-conference training sessions for DrupalCon San Francisco, and we don't want you to miss out (sign up ends tomorrow)! We're proud to be on the forefront of Drupal training by offering one of the first Drupal 7 training sessions by the man who wrote the book himself --  Read more

There is something just awesome about using a Drupal site hosted with Pantheon. Snappy page loads will make you happy, and when your pages generate up to ten times faster you will really feel the difference. Even though it makes Josh nervous (since we're still in beta testing) it has been really fun for us to play with the first Pantheon powered sites out in the wild. In all we have tracked over 1,000 Pantheon servers launch so far during the beta test phase of the Mercury stack.

Just a quick note for Drupal Planet readers, I've posted a step-by-step walkthrough of how to set up Varnish and APC in the style of Project Mercury on the Ec2 Drupal group. I'm hoping this will help people working with these techniques in their own environments.

Next steps for the project are to work on EBS tools, a 64-bit version, some public version-control for configuration files/scripts, and possibly modeling how to run on an external database.

It is a good Drupal development best practice to embed each of your views in code instead of storing them in the database. This technique will allow your views code to be managed by your version control system which makes pushing up changes to views from development to staging to live a much cleaner process. Additionally, since the views code is being loaded from disk instead of the the more expensive database you will see a modest performance improvement. All in all a pretty good thing.