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Drupal: Peformance and Scalability

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Since I do work on Drupal sites from time to time and have built some very large ones I do keep an eye on the Drupal "stack" and change. But, I haven't revisted it for a while.

A few months ago I posted an article about a Drupal stack that I had tested w/ a big media company to do 2.5 billion page views a a month. It was a lot of servers and some sophisticated modifications to Drupal.

It's still a solid architecture but there are some new entries I thought I'd like to evaluate. I also deployed that one on Joyent so I was curious what I might be able to do with other cloud vendors. This time I picked Rackspace's Cloud Servers since they were kind enough to comp. nScaled, Inc. a little free time to test things out an demo to clients. So, I've been beating up on them pretty good. I'm impressed and considering what I did to some of their servers yesterday I'm surprised I didn't get a cease and desist!

Here is the Drupal Stack I built and configured.

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Cloud Computing: Evolution, Revolution, or Renaissance?

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Today on his blog Nati Shalom asked the following question.

"What are your thoughts on this matter, does cloud computing represent a revolution or an evolution?"

Since I had a post about 1/2 written on this very subject I thought I'd take the cue and finish it.

It is my opinion that Cloud Computing is a technology architecture evolution that, when properly applied to business problems, can enable a business revolution. I've been saying this for a while but in recent weeks I have actually come to prefer the term renaissance over revolution.

One of the primary factors behind this renaissance is the displacement of monetary expenses.

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Varnish: Extreme Front End Web Caching and Much More

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I've written several times in the past about varnish. But, in the last six months it wasn't the right fit for the client work I was doing so it drifted away a bit in my world.  Today, doing some research, I ran across and old bookmark and thought that I should check in on the project.  There was tons of great news!

Here's the top of the items that grabbed my attention