Nathaniel Catchpole (aka catch) talks about some of the performance-related patches that he has been focusing on for Drupal 7. When Dries gave his State of Drupal keynote address in DrupalCon San Francisco, he presented the Top 20 Drupal 7 core patch contributors and catch was at the top of the list with over 337 p...
Mike Carper (aka mikeytown2) talks about the Boost module, which a lightweight performance enhancement for small-scale sites that don't have a lot of dynamic content. After adding some apache rules to the .htaccess file, then Boost will translate Drupal pages into static HTML files and serve those directly instead of going through PHP and MySQL. Carper talks about...
Khalid Baheyeldin (aka kbahey) has been involved with Drupal since 2003, and focuses on the performance & scalability in Drupal. He talks about his strategies for diagnosing the performance bottlenecks in a Drupal site, and mentions some of the various tools that he prescribes as a solution.
For more information, be sure to check out Baheyeldin's DrupalCon...
Narayan Newton (aka nnewton) talks about the future of MySQL and it's various forks and different patch sets that are emerging. He's the lead sysadmin for drupal.org, a database optimization expert with Tag1 Consulting, and the co-maintainer of...
Károly Négyesi (aka chx) talks about MongoDB and NoSQL databases. He's working on building a MongoDB module that integrates with Drupal 7's FieldAPI pluggable storage to make Exa...
Jeremy Andrews (aka Jeremy) of Tag1 Consulting has been involved with Drupal for over nine years. He ran KernelTrap.org, which was one of the first Drupal websites that we receiving a lot of traffic. Andrews has continued to be involved with performance and scalability, and he talks about some of the work that he's doing with Examiner.com and Drupal 7 to figure out a lot of...
Josh Koenig (aka joshk) of Chapter Three talks about the Pantheon Project that allows you to run Drupal on a cloud infrastructure either as a Amazon EC2 machine instance or on the Rackspace Cloud. Chapter Three also has a service that is curren...
Barry Jaspan (aka bjaspan) talks about the Amazon Web Services infrastructure that he engineered for running Acquia Hosting. For more information, be sure to also check out Acquia's recent webi...
Mike Meyers, the CTO of Examiner.com, talks about migrating their site to Drupal 7 and gives an update since his previous interviews at DrupalCon DC and DrupalCon Paris. He discusses how he is able to attract top Drupal talent by emphasizing contributing ba...
Jeff Miccolis of Development Seed talks about the open data site that they created for the World Bank at http://data.worldbank.org. He talks about some of the modules that they used to create the site such as Features, Context...