* They carefully walk you through both installation and customization of the entire LAMP stack.
* They go over the highly-optimized Pressflow distribution of Drupal.
* They teach you how to benchmark your site's performance, how to install many types of caching layers and how to optimize each layer of your server infrastructure.
* They even teach you all about things like CDN integration, APC, Varnish, Memcache and other caching layers within Drupal and MySQL.
* They discuss scaling strategies, looking at hardware topologies for both co-located and cloud infrastructures.
* They teach you how to isolate performance bottlenecks and cover strategies for monitoring.
* They also go over some of the changes in Drupal 7 and the next release of Pressflow.
By the end of this video you'll be an old pro at creating high performance Drupal deployments!
Chapter Listing
- Introduction
- Overview of performance optimizations
- LAMP stack installations
- Prepping MySQL
- Installing Pressflow
- Using the Apache benchmark tool
- Installing Alternative PHP Cache (APC)
- Installing Varnish
- Installing Memecached
- AMP optimizations
- PHP.ini optimizations
- Database tuning
- Content Delivery Networks
- Isolating performance bottlenecks
- Hardware topologies for scaling
- Changes in Drupal 7
- Further resources for performance & scalability
- Conclusion
Produced by Jeff Robbins. Directed and edited by Kent Bye.
Shot in widescreen format
Total running time: 5hr 15min
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