High Performance Drupal

1. Beginning a Performance Project
-Getting Started with Performance Improvements
-Establishing a Performance Baseline
-Setting Goals for Website Performance
-The Many Aspects of Drupal Performance
-Creating a Prioritized List of Improvements

2. Frontend Performance
-Limiting HTTP Requests
-Image Requests
-Minification
-Compression
-Cacheable Headers
-CDNs
-Keep Third-Party Libraries Up to Date
-External Scripts
-Single Points of Failure (SPOFs)

3. Drupal Performance Out of the Box
-Page Caching
-When Should You Use Page Caching?
-CSS and JavaScript Aggregation
-Logging
-The Cache and Other Swappable Storage
-Cron
-Views

4. Drupal Coding for Optimal Performance
-Context Matters
-False Optimizations
-Listing Entities
-Caching
-Queues and Workers
-Cache Stampedes and Race Conditions

5. Drupal Coding for Abysmal Performance
-variable_set() Abuse
-External Requests
-Sessions
-Excessive Cache Granularity
-PHP Errors
-Debug Code in the Code Base
-Development Settings

6. Verifying Changes
-Analyzing Frontend Performance
-Analyzing Application Performance

7. Infrastructure Design and Planning
-Horizontal and Vertical Scaling
-Service Categorization
-Working Well Together
-Example Two-Layer Configuration
-Example Larger-Scale Infrastructure
-Development and Staging Environments
-Internal Network Layout
-Utility Servers
-High Availability and Failover
-Hosting Considerations
-Summary

8. Service Monitoring
-The Importance of Monitoring Services
-Monitoring Alerts with Icinga
-Graphing Monitoring Data
-Internal Versus Remote Monitoring

9. "DevOps": Breaking Down Barriers Between Development and Operations
-Revision Control Systems
-Configuration Management Systems
-Pulling It Together: In-Depth Example with Puppet and Git
-Development Virtual Machines
-Deployment Workflow
-Deployment with Jenkins CI

10. File Storage for Multiple Web Servers
-rsync
-GlusterFS
-Single NFS Server
-HA NFS Cluster
-Storage Area Networks (SANs)

11. Drupal and Cloud Deployments
-What Is the Cloud?
-Why Use the Cloud?
-Infrastructure Overhead
-Prepackaged Clouds
-Common Issues with Cloud Deployments and Their Mitigations

12. Failover Configuration
-IP Failover Versus DNS Failover
-Service-Level Issues
-Heartbeat

13. MySQL
-Drupal and MySQL Engines
-Versions of MySQL
-General Configuration
-Replication
-Virtualized Deployments

14. Tools for Managing and Monitoring MySQL
-Percona Toolkit
-Openark Kit
-mysqlreport
-Percona Monitoring Plug-Ins

15. MySQL Query Optimization
-Index Basics
-Base Tables and Join Order
-Common Issues

16. Alternative Storage and Cache Backends
-Cache, Lock, and Session Storage
-Memcache In Depth
-How to Break Your Site with Memcache
-Entity/Field Storage

17. Solr Search
-Performance and Scalability Considerations
-Integrating Solr with Drupal
-Solr Configuration
-Indexing Content
-Infrastructure Considerations
-Solr Replication
-Drupal Module Installation

18. PHP and httpd Configuration
-APC: PHP Opcode Cache
-php.ini Settings
-PHP Apache Module Versus CGI
-Apache MPM Settings
-Prefork Thread Settings
-KeepAlive
-Cache Headers
-Logging
-Server Signature
-Administrative Directory or VirtualHost
-Nginx

19. Reverse Proxies and Content Delivery Networks
-Using a Reverse Proxy with Drupal
-Understanding Varnish Configuration Language
-Cookies and Varnish
-Caching for Authenticated Users
-Edge-Side Includes
-Serving Expired Content
-Error Pages
-Memory Allocation
-Logging and Monitoring Varnish
-Sample VCL for Drupal
-Content Delivery Networks

20. Load Testing
-Different Types of Load Tests
-Creating a Valid Test
-When to Test
-Interpreting Test Results
-Server Monitoring During Load Tests
-Where to Test
-Example Load Test Using JMeter

21. Where to Next?
-Official Book Website
-High Performance Drupal Group
-Drupal Watchdog
-Revision Control with Git
-Varnish
-Configuration Management
-Vagrant
-Jenkins
-MySQL Performance
-InnoDB Index Structures

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