High concurrency Composer
On behalf of Acquia I’m currently working on Drupal’s next big leap: Automatic Updates
BigPipe's strength: available to all
I’ve been running a lot lately, and so have been listening to lots of podcasts!
Drupal 8.3: BigPipe experimental → stable!
Almost a year ago, BigPipe was the first experimental module added to Drupal 8.
BigPipe
Did you know that often the majority of the time spent generating a HTML page is spent on a few dynamic/uncacheable/personalized parts?
Drupal 8.1: BigPipe as an experimental module
Today, Drupal 8.1 has been released and it includes BigPipe as an experimental module.
BigPipe webinar
This talk covers everything in BigPipe (the webinar I did a few weeks ago was only an introdu
BigPipe introduction webinar
Acquia frequently does webinars and given my work on BigPipe, I was asked to present with Fabien Potencier (of
Performance Calendar 2015: "2013 is calling: are CMSes fast by default yet?"
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like the last few years.
Drupal 8: BigPipe module ready
I’m happy to announce that Fabian Franz and I managed to get a first release of BigPipe published today, coinciding with the
Drupal 8's Dynamic Page Cache
Drupal 8 now has a Dynamic Page Cache. The Page Cache module only works for anonymous users, the Dynamic Page Cache module takes that a step further: it works for any user.
Making Drupal fly — The fastest Drupal ever is here!
Together with Fabian Franz from Tag1 Consulting, I had a session about Big Pipe in Drupal 8, as well as related performance/cacheability improvements.
Caching at the Edge: CDNs for everyone
Drupal 8 has comprehensive knowledge about the cacheability of the things it renders. This opens new doors.
Making Drupal fly — The fastest Drupal ever is near!
Update September 24, 2015: the fastest Drupal ever is no longer near, it is here!
The Montpellier Perf Sprint, and what’s next
At least 20 people helped push one or more issues forward in Montpellier, at the Drupal Dev Days Performance Sprint!
Drupal 8 now has page caching enabled by default
After more than a year and probably hundreds of patches, yesterday it finally happened!
renderviz: tool visualizing Drupal 8's render tree
I’m working on making Drupal 8 faster as part of my job at Acquia.
Render caching in Drupal 7 and 8
Together with Fabian Franz & Marco Molinari from Tag1 Consulting, I had a session about render caching in Drupal 7 and 8 at DrupalCon Amsterdam.
Performance Calendar 2013: "The real challenge: making the entire web fast"
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like the last few years.
Drupal 8: perf & ops — cache tags & pluggable asset optimization
For this short talk, I chose two particular improvements in Drupal 8 that will make a big difference for future Drupal sites’ performance and ops (infrastructure requirements).
Building really fast websites with Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is going to have better front-end performance for anonymous users out of the box: it is now smart enough to no longer load unnecessary JavaScript.
Easy Drupal CDN integration for fun and profit
Speed up your Drupal site with a CDN in a few minutes.
Performance Calendar 2010: “WPO Analytics”
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like last year.
Drupal 6 CDN integration: a test case
In this final article in my bachelor thesis series, I explain how I proved that the work I had done for my bachelor thesis (which includes the Episo
CDN integration module 6.x-1.x
In this article, I explain the rationale behind the CDN integration module for Drupal 6, which was written as part of my bachelor thesis.
CDN integration module 5.x-1.x
In this article, which was in fact written in January—February 2008 (well over two years ago), I explain what the benefit is of using a CDN and how the then-new