In this chapter, we're going to learn how to throttle modules and blocks on our site in order to increase performance and reduce server load during high traffic periods. We will use the Throttle module to do this.
We'll return to a discussion of the Devel module and how it can be used to generate dummy content, users, and taxonomy categories for our development site. Using Devel to generate test or dummy content provides an easy method of building a test or demo site quickly.
We'll look at caching mechanisms in two of the larger scale contributed modules, Views and Panels, which you may find yourself using frequently. Panels and Views both allow you to cache the data and content that you insert into these modules. We'll look at how these caching mechanisms work and how you can maintain your cache in both modules.
To summarize, here's what we'll be doing in this chapter:
Throttling modules and blocks
Using the Development module to generate taxonomy, users,...