---
title: "Steve Rude on the Cache Router module"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/steve-rude-on-the-cache-router-module"
type: episode
date: 2009-05-28
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Steve Rude on the Cache Router module

#  Steve Rude on the Cache Router module 

  

*Podcast episode player*

[Steve Rude](http://www.slantview.com/) talks about the [Cache Router](http://drupal.org/project/cacherouter) module, which is an engine to be able to combine and swap in and out different caching techniques like: [APC](https://www.php.net/apc), Database caching, [eAccelerator](http://eaccelerator.net/), File caching, [Memcache](http://www.danga.com/memcached/) and [XCache](http://xcache.lighttpd.net/).

Some performance tuning tools mentioned are: [Navicat](https://www.navicat.com/en/), [MySQL Top](https://mtop.sourceforge.net/), [xdebug](http://www.xdebug.org/), [devel module](http://drupal.org/project/devel), [Firebug](https://getfirebug.com/) and [YSlow](https://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/)

For more information on Drupal caching, check out John VanDyk's Drupalcon presentation [Inside Drupal Caching: From Static Variables to Memcache](http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/inside-drupal-caching-static-variables-memcache)

[Download](https://www.lullabot.com/audio/download/561/DrupalVoices040.mp3)