Performance intelligence slides

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Tuning for Success: Performance Intelligence

for Enterprise Drupal

Steve Strong and David Orr – APCO Worldwide, Kieran Lal – Acquia, Dan Bartow – Soasta,

Do you love working with Drupal?

If so, Acquia is hiring:–Engineering & design–Client advisors and consulting–Inside sales

Check out openings athttp://acquia.com/careers

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Who cares about load testing? Stake holders and why they care.

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State of Drupal load testing report

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Load testing plan framework

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Drupal can scale

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Acquia.com/hosting-questionaire

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Existing Customer Configuration #1

User-contributed publishing site– 20M PVs/month– <2% page caching

100,000+ unique pages per day70% hit caching

– Moderate complexity8 blocks/page with 3 viewsHigh-memory PHP footprint

– 200+MB

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Web Servers

MySQL DB Cluster

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Existing Customer Configuration #2

Online Magazine– 13M PVs/month– 30% page caching

95%+ anonymous traffic75% hit caching

– Moderate-High complexity

8 to 11 views/page

Shared Load Balancer

Web Servers

MySQL DB Cluster

m1.large

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Existing Customer Configuration #3

Movie trailer and ticketing site– 7M PVs/month– 60% authenticated

traffic– No page caching– Moderate complexity

3-8 views/page

– Very high DB load250K registered usersDrupal 5

Note: Backup DB server also serves as file server

Shared Load Balancer

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MySQL DB Cluster

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Existing Customer Configuration #4

User-contributed publishing site– 400M+ PVs/month– >97% page caching

All anonymous traffic

– Round-robin DNS to include both load balancers

– Low complexityBrochure-ware site

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Hosting performance checklist

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Acquia Optimizations from Soasta testing

Increase load balancer sizes to X-LargeConfigure firewalls to allow for all clientsIncrease Varnish TTL from 2-5 minutes, adjusted grace timeIncrease PHP CGI lifetimeUsed DNS round robin, 2 A records, to split the loadAllowed for more per server configurationsVarnish PURGE everythingAWS to AWS network issues

SOASTA

SOASTA CloudTest

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FIRST Cloud Testing Company (since 2007)

Performed The FIRST Test Simulating over a Million Users

Provisioned Over 350,000 Cloud Servers For Testing

AWARD Winning Technology:

Top Ten New Cloud Services (IW)

Best Cloud Application (IT Mgmt)

Visionary Leader MQ (Gartner)

Named One of the Hottest Companies in America (WSJ)

Top 100 On-Demand Cloud Service (On-Demand Magazine)

SOASTA Customers Over (150) Leading Consumer-Facing Websites

What is Cloud Testing?The Best Way to Accurately Test Web Applications

Performance Intelligence

Outside the Firewall

Customer Experience

Performance Intelligence

Inside the Firewall

Combined and Correlated

Methodology

Methodology

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APCO Worldwide

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Crisis and litigation communications

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Experience with CMS’s

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The big project, 8 days notice

Launching a site with 8 days noticeFirst cluster didn’t make itComing to Acquia– Pre-tuned Drupal cloud– Levels of Service– Built before you bought– Learning about pressflow

Three rounds of Soasta load testingConfident it would scale

Questions

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