High Performance Drupal: Fast and Scalable Designs

How can you help your Drupal website continueto perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensiveguide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solvingseveral performance and scalability issues. You’ll learn how to apply codingand infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance,databases, web servers, and performance analysis.

Covering Drupal versions 7 and 8, this book is the ideal reference foreverything from site deployment to implementing specific technologies such asVarnish, memcache, or Solr. If you have a basic understanding of Drupal and theLinux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (LAMP) stack, you’re ready to get started.

• Establish a performance baseline and define goals for improvement
• Optimize your website’s code and front-end performance
• Get best and worst practices for customizing Drupal core functionality
• Apply infrastructure design techniques to launch or expand a site
• Use tools to configure, monitor, and optimize MySQL performance
• Employ alternative storage and backend search options as your site grows
• Tune your web servers through httpd and PHP configuration
• Monitor services and perform load tests to catch problems before they become critical

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