In this session, Promet Source’s Andy Kucharski (CEO/Drupal Junkie) will show the audience how to properly & accurately load test, the impact of performance, the best improvements that positively affect performance, and the fundamentals of capacity planning & performance tuning. All while assessing the efficacy of common fixes.

 

Watch live load testing! Test speed beyond content loading! Understand how to read/analyze test results!

 

Plus, see the results from Promet Source (a top-notch Drupal development firm) and leading Load Testing Software provider, LoadStorm who collaborated to test out-of-the-box Drupal sites on standard servers. Understand common mistakes and how to prevent them so your sites can perform optimally!

 

We will also look at past load tests done on several different hosting platforms and compare results.

 

Finally, we'll look at results of implementing commonly used performance improvements such as varnish, memcache, APC, and others. We will also examine some common contributed modules and their impact on performance.

 

This idea started at the last MidCamp however we have vastly improved on this talk by performing many more tests on common