Áron Novák

Job title:

Agence Inovae, developer

Started to work with Drupal professionally in 2006 after Google Summer of Code, mainly on back-end. I work for Agence Inovae, a Geneva-based Drupal shop as a developer for more than 3 years. Speeding up existing sites is such a challenge that I particularly enjoy. External data handling is another domain of my interest.

Session title:

Performance analysis of Drupal sites

Session summary:

Either if you build a new site or receive a legacy project for further maintenance or to complete, there can be a situation where it's not obvious that why the site is not fast enough. First, the term of website performance is clarified (what can be the definition, client side vs. server side, how to measure, performance versus scalability). After that we try out some tools to do analysis on the back-end, proceeding from the more abstract level to the low level.

You should already:

be able to write Drupal modules
have an understanding of the whole stack for running web applications.

An existing, prepared site will be available and each attendee is supposed to participate in discovering the weaknesses of the test site at own environment. Be ready for possibly installing new PHP extensions and other software packages.