Back to the Blog

'Varnish' Your Drupal Setup

Posted by Hani Atalla on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 13:18 Cool Tools, Drupal Caching, Drupal, Varnish

For every high performance website that gets hammered by a decent traffic volume, some sort of caching mechanism is essential and Drupal is no exception.  The Drupal caching approach, to a great extent, depends upon the type of visitors who frequent the website and this suggests different Drupal specific caching techniques depending upon the type of visitors to the website; for instance if the predominant visitors to the website are authenticated users versus unauthenticated.  So in this blog, I’d like to discuss Varnish as a caching option for...

read more

Some stocking stuffers for your Publisher deployment

Posted by Mitul Patel on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 21:23 Enterprise 2.0 Caching, Publisher, Reporting

Recently we found a client's aging Publisher deployment started becoming forgetful. Well maybe not so much forgetful, but exhibiting the advanced symptoms of dementia! We were finding that free memory in their deployment was consistently finding itself hovering at about 1% of total memory. This fact lead us to continually bump up the maximum memory setting for the JVM running publisher as band-aid type solution to this mystery. This went on for a while until finally we were pegged at the maximum we could allocate, 1.5Gb and still we found ourselves at 1% free memory. In an attempt to get a...

read more
Stay In Touch