File Conveyor: design
In this extensive article, I explain the architecture of the “File Conveyor” daemon that I wrote to detect files immediately (through the file system even
FOSDEM 2010
This weekend on Sunday, February 7, we’ll have a full day of Drupal talks at the 10th edition of FOSDEM, Europe’s biggest, free
DrupalCon Paris
I will be presenting together with Konstantin Käfer on Front End
Key Properties of a CDN
In this very brief article, I highlight the key properties of CDNs: what differentiates them and which technical implications you should keep in mind.
Improving Drupal: Episodes integration
In this article, I explain what was required to integrate the Episodes page loading performance monitoring system
Page loading profiling tools
In this article, seven distinctly different page loading profiling tools are compared: UA Profiler, Cuzillion,
FOSDEM 2009
I went to FOSDEM on Sunday.
Battle plan for Drupal 7: performance
My battle plan for Drupal 7 is simple: get as many performance improvements or performance-improvement-enablers from my Drupal page loading
CSS sprite generator open sourced!
I already mentioned the CSS sprite generator in my article on
Improving Drupal's page loading performance
Google dominates the search engine market for a large part thanks to its spartan, no-bells-nor-whistles interfaces. But also thanks to its incredible speed (which is partially thanks to that spartan interface, of course). Since you’re reading this article, you’re probably a Drupal developer. It’s pretty likely that you’ve had some visitors of your Drupal-powered web site complain about slow page load times. It doesn’t matter whether your server(s) are shared, VPSes or even dedicated servers. Visitors that live abroad – i.e. far from where your servers are located – will face the same performance issues, but at even worse scales.This article is about tackling these issues.