---
title: "Jeremy Andrews on Performance & Scalability Tools"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/jeremy-andrews-on-performance-scalability-tools"
type: episode
date: 2010-07-21
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Jeremy Andrews on Performance & Scalability Tools

#  Jeremy Andrews on Performance & Scalability Tools 

  

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Jeremy Andrews (aka [Jeremy](http://drupal.org/user/409)) of [Tag1 Consulting](https://www.tag1.com/) has been involved with Drupal for over nine years. He ran [KernelTrap.org,](http://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 the tools and techniques to make the site scalable and performant. He talks about [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/), and some of the other scalability improvements of Drupal 7. While there are a lot of scalability improvements to Drupal 7, the performance has taken a hit and they're in the process of figuring out the best practices in that area as well including writing a [module to integrate with RRDtool](http://drupal.org/project/rrdtool), the round-robin database tool that is used for tracking time-series data. Some other monitoring tools that Andrews mentions include [mysqlreport](https://hackmysql.com/mysqlreport/), [Nagios monitoring](https://www.nagios.org/) and [Cacti Graphs.](http://www.cacti.net/)