High Performance Drupal: Fast and Scalable Designs
<div><p>How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You’ll learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis.</p><p>Covering Drupal versions 7 and 8, this book is the ideal reference for everything from site deployment to implementing specific technologies such as Varnish, memcache, or Solr. If you have a basic understanding of Drupal and the Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (LAMP) stack, you’re ready to get started.</p><ul><li>Establish a performance baseline and define goals for improvement</li><li>Optimize your website’s code and front-end performance</li><li>Get best and worst practices for customizing Drupal core functionality</li><li>Apply infrastructure design techniques to launch or expand a site</li><li>Use tools to configure, monitor, and optimize MySQL performance</li><li>Employ alternative storage and backend search options as your site grows</li><li>Tune your web servers through httpd and PHP configuration</li><li>Monitor services and perform load tests to catch problems before they become critical</li></ul></div>