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Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By : T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James
Book Image

Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By: T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most respected and widely used open source content management frameworks.&nbsp; Small, medium, and large-scale websites are built using Drupal and the framework supports ecommerce, CRM, multisite and web service integrations.&nbsp; <br /><br />Once you get your Drupal site installed and up and running, you will be concerned with site performance and how fast you can make your Drupal site run.&nbsp; This book will focus on implementing performance modules and solutions to help speed up your Drupal website.<br /><br />We will look at introductory topics such as upgrading your Drupal site, maintaining your site, and enabling core Drupal page compression and caching. <br />&nbsp;<br />Then we will turn to an advanced look at some contributed modules that help speed up performance, including Development, Boost, Authcache, Advanced Cache, and the Memcache API and Integration module.<br /><br />Finally, we&rsquo;ll look at how best to implement a Drupal multisite environment and run it with high-speed performance in mind.<br /><br />This book is designed for Drupal developers and webmasters who want to increase their Drupal site&rsquo;s speed and performance.&nbsp; You will take your Drupal site to the next level by not only displaying relevant and newsworthy content, but also running a powerful and high-speed website.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 6 Performance Tips
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

About the Reviewers

Daniel Hanold is a software developer and business consultant based in New York City. After graduating from Stuttgart Media University with degrees in IT and Economics, he co-founded PeoplesMD, an online patient education resource. He began his love affair with Drupal shortly afterwards.

Equipped with his background in PHP and MySQL, Daniel creates applications ranging from brochure websites for high-profile clients to social networks for non-profit organizations. Daniel is an expert in combining CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery to make user interactions with any application as simple, elegant, and efficient as possible.

Currently, Daniel focuses on large scale community websites and performance optimization using technologies such as Apache Solr and Memcached. His personal blog can be found at http://danielhanold.com.

Joeri Poesen is a longtime Drupal user, developer, and trainer. He loves nothing more than scouring the planet, learning how open source tools such as Drupal empower individuals and organizations, and how he can contribute to their adoption.

When not traveling or organizing community events, Joeri is probably giving a Drupal training session somewhere in Europe—most likely in Paris, France.

This book is dedicated to my parents, Michael and Judy James, who taught me the value of hard work and dedication to the task at hand.

—Trevor James