004 Mike Carper and Drupal Front-End Performance - Modules Unraveled Podcast
Submitted on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 17:00
Have you ever wanted to run 1300+ domains off of one Drupal install? Listen in while I talk to Mike Carper of Data Sphere about the Drupal performance modules he's contributed that make it possible for them to do just that.
This first episode will cover his front-end performance modules, and on Wednesday, there will be a special part 2 episode where we talk about his back-end performance modules.
The modules covered in this episode include:
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Some may wonder why Edge Side Includes (ESI) is listed for the front end. There are a couple of reasons. ESI allows you to load in ESI-ed fragments via AJAX (if your not using Varnish or Nginx). The other reason is, the only way one can do similar things to ESI is via 2 different modules; one called Ajaxify Regions, the other called Ajax Blocks. It is on the edge of being a front-end or back-end module and in this case I deiced to classify it as a front-end module, because if your currently using AJAX to load in up-to-the-minute content on your cached page you can use ESI to have it loaded in and not execute that bit of JavaScript, thus speeding up your front end rendering.
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