JMeter is a useful tool for performance testing and profiling of your web applications, determining problematic pages, and identifying the realistic amount of traffic your site can be expected to handle. On the downside, in the Drupal space, it's an outside tool and oftentimes something that is - as a result - less approachable. On the positive side, there's always time to learn, and...
Part II of My Blog on the Tesla/Apple Model of Top-tier Engineering Married to Exceptional Design.
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Here are the three big things I see Apple and Tesla do that Achieve Internet is striving to emulate in order to become obsession-worthy:
1. Focus on Usability and Design as Much as Engineering
As with many Drupal development shops, my team is predominately...
Tesla and Apple - Obsession-Worthy Part 1
I'm utterly and completely obsessed with the Tesla Model S.
So obsessed in fact, that I think we should take a moment to just admire it:
I'm so obsessed with this vehicle that I keep trying to convince myself to put a deposit down on one. All my cars work fine, but that hasn't kept me from trying to figure out a way I can justify a...
I love stoplights.
No, seriously. I think stoplights are amazing.
No, I’m not just looking at things in the world and saying that I love them.
No, I don't like stopping at them any more than the next guy, and I may or may not speed up to make it through yellow lights (I do), but that doesn't mean that I don't love them.
I love stoplights because they work. I know...
Media Update
Achieve Internet has released a new Drupal 7 module named Media Update on Drupal.org. This module simplifies the process of updating media content by allowing replacement of existing files. To install the module, go to www.drupal.org/project/media_update.
Why the Media Update Module is Useful
Do you wish you had the ability to quickly and easily replace a media file in use at...
Views Media Browser
Achieve Internet has released a new Drupal 7 module named Views Media Browser on Drupal.org. This module simplifies managing websites that have a large number of media files, such as images, videos, and PDFs. To install the module, go to www.drupal.org/project/views_media_browser.
Why the Views Media Browser Module is Useful
Do you wish you had the ability to filter...
Achieve works on many large-scale Drupal deployments (what we call Enterprise Drupal websites). We also work on many sites aspiring to reach this Enterprise level of deployment. During the process of growing a Drupal website, we leverage a host of technologies and apply various insider “tricks of the trade” to produce the best possible performance for every site we deploy. One of the...
Apache Solr Search
For news and updates on the open-source Drupal CMS project, visit the Drupal Association’s Web site at www.Association.Drupal.org. For news and updates on the open-source Drupal CMS project, visit the Drupal Association’s Web site at www.Association.Drupal.org. This week, Achieve completed one of the final phases of the integration project for the...
Advanced Faceted Searching on Drupal.org
Like many in the Drupal community I'm anxiously awaiting the new Drupal.org redesign. So much so, several months ago I jumped at the chance to contribute on the development team. We're making significant progress, and have a sprint scheduled for March 19th, 8am – noon PST (IRC channel #drupal-infrastructure).
One of the functional...
San Diego Drupal Development
SANDCamp was this past weekend, and I had the pleasure of being able to present. The first half of the presentation was geared at improvements that can be utilized by small sites (app/db on the same server) to improve performance and increase capacity. The second half of the presentation - which I had to race through - was aimed at creating specialization (multi-...
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