Drupal Asia Pacific Conference

Summary

Caching is one strategy that can be used to increase the Performance and Scalability of a Drupal site. This session will cover the various types of caches in Drupal, how to use them, and what the alternatives are. Topics include:

- drupal core caching: what is cached, how it works

- pluggable cache system

- using caching in (your) custom modules

- alternate caching implementations (memcache, apc)

- advanced caching module

- block cache module

- filesystem caching (boost, fastpath_fscache)

- bytecode caches

- changes between Drupal 5 and Drupal 6

Presenter Info

Simon Roberts has been using Drupal for about 2.5 years, and enjoys the challenge of producing high-performing and scalable websites using Drupal. He is a (sometimes) co-maintainer of memcache module, and is currently working on another large-scale Drupal site.