Drupal Deals With Traffic Spikes
Given the viral nature of the web, small-scale visitor-swarms can quickly become enormous and overwhelming. It's kind of like the the videos you see during Shark Week on Discovery Channel – a little Facebook and Twitter chum in the water and presto: feeding frenzy! You want to be the guy in the steel cage when that happens.
This frenzy phenomenon...
Drupal Caching
This past week, I was chatting with my friend - and ex-boss - Chris Fuller (cfuller12) from Optaros about caching pages for authenticated users. He'd been implementing authcache to cache pages for his latest deployment but was going to need to do some tweaking to get dynamic aspects of the page working for logged in users. I've been busy writing...
Drupal Caching
I have been working on upgrading the caching contrib modules to Drupal 6 and started to notice some patterns and duplicated code, which led me to think Drupal's approach to caching in general. We currently have a fairly limited API for caching, but we have a magic bullet that helps us overcome some of these weaknesses: the cache.inc override system. Anyone who has spent...



