performance

Frank Febbraro is the CTO of Phase2 and the architect of the transition of whitehouse.gov to Drupal. He gave this talk at DrupalCon San Francisco.

Due to NDAs I can't go into great detail about the things I'm presenting, but I'm happy to be able to share what I can with you guys.

Overview

Whitehouse.gov scales to lots and lots of page views. Scaling means more than adding servers and increasing page views, it means planning and processes, and growing and maturing the process of delivery. We'll be talking about infrastructure, but other stuff as well.

Addthis.com provides a popular, free social networking "favorites" widget (you can see an example in the block to the right of this article.) It's a great, fast and easy way to allow people to favorite yoru content on Digg, Facebook, Twitter and so on. Unfortunately, YSlow doesn't like AddThis.