When Efficiency Matters - Drupal at Scale
This session will address the decision points involved in developing and deploying Drupal for maximum efficiency. We'll discuss tools, techniques, and architectures make to make the best use of your time and money. Novel approaches to common efficiency challenges in development and deployment will be demonstrated.
Scott Mattoon
Eric Reid
Agenda
Efficiency challenges for Developers:
- Coding, Testing Analyzing, Tuning, Collaborating
Efficiency challenges for Deployers:
- Installing, Virtualizing, Securing, Scaling, Automating
Goals
A basic goal of this session is to build awareness of the open source technologies available from Sun, and how to apply them to the range of efficiency needs of developers and deployers. Attendees will learn about relevant features and techniques using NetBeans, VirtualBox, and OpenSolaris features ZFS, Zones, SMF, DTrace, and the integrated AMP stack Webstack.
Resources
- VirtualBox
- OpenSolaris
- NetBeans
- PHP plugin for NetBeans
- Drupal Wizard for NetBeans
- Running MySQL in Solaris Containers
- Tuning PHP code with DTrace
- Using the Service Management Framework
Speakers
- Scott Mattoon
- Eric Reid
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Slides posted to slideshare.net
http://www.slideshare.net/smattoon/drupal-efficiency
Video
http://www.archive.org/details/WhenEfficiencyAndManageabilityMatterDrupa...
Recorded by: Alan Doucette
Session proposal modified
This session proposal has been modified from the original to be slightly less esoteric and more focused on specifically what Sun (conference sponsor) has to offer to Drupal developers and deployers.