Everything's Bigger in Texas: Designing Large/Enterprise-Level Drupal Environments

Everything is bigger in Texas including our Drupal environments!

Power and performance are key deliverables for any enterprise or large organizational website and Drupal is no exception. The goal of this session is to help you understand what a highly available environment consists of so that you can avoid the common mistakes and pitfalls when designing a highly available and scalable architecture to support Drupal.

We will go over different success criteria such as: What goes into the design, ie: - Points of failure - Capacity planning - Ease of maintenance Reasons of choosing one technology over the other - eAccelerator vs. APC - Squid vs. Varnish - NFS vs. GFS vs. file synchronization

Slides: 

Designing_Enterprise_Drupal.pdf