Tonight’s meetup will feature a presentation from Worthpoint’s Amran Anwar about scaling Drupal to 1,000,000+ dynamic page views a day. We’ll kickoff at 6:15. Bring your own projects to share with the group. And Frank will be showcasing the work he did with Amazon Web Services. Hope to see you there!
Event location:
Teqcorner, LLC.
1616 Anderson Road
McLean, Virginia 22102
MC:
Scott Hockett, Director of Business Operations at Phase2 Technology in Alexandria.
Speaker:
Arman Anwar, CTO, NewHelix
Description:
MySQL replication, load balancing web servers, Quercus, content delivery networks, memcached, and squid – there are currently a lot of moving parts when scaling a Drupal site to 1,000,000+ dynamic page views a day. Learn where to start, where to get the most bang for your buck, when to consider using commercial software / services, and when you may need to consider writing your own high performance Drupal modules.
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Tiffany Shackelford is an online marketing and new media consultant at Phase 2 Technology.