Sessions at Open Source Bridge 2010 matching your filters

Are you ready if your web site gets popular or goes viral? A site that was happily handling a few thousand page views a day can very suddenly find itself struggling to handle hundreds of thousands of hits. The combination of Pressflow’s enhancements to Drupal and Varnish’s lightning-fast cache provide a free and open source way to exponentially increase the amount of traffic a Drupal-based web site can serve, allowing you to meet the demand without additional expensive hardware. During the session, we will cover the following topics:

• What Pressflow is and how it is different from the Drupal content management system
• What Varnish is and what it can do to help
• Why Pressflow+Varnish may be a good option for your web site
• Tips and tools for tuning and optimizing your configuration to make the most out of your precious server resources
• Lessons learned – what not to do
• Real-world examples from live sites running Pressflow and Varnish

The open source Drupal content management system powers numerous prominent web sites including:
* President Obama’s White House web site
* Linux Journal
* Zappos

Pressflow and Varnish are being used by some of the largest Drupal sites in the world:
* The Economist Online
* NBC Universal Bravo TV
* The Grammy Awards