Jeremy Andrews on Performance & Scalability Tools

Jeremy Andrews (aka Jeremy) of Tag1 Consulting has been involved with Drupal for over nine years. He ran KernelTrap.org, which was one of the first Drupal websites that we receiving a lot of traffic. Andrews has continued to be involved with performance and scalability, and he talks about some of the work that he's doing with Examiner.com and Drupal 7 to figure out a lot of the tools and techniques to make the site scalable and performant. He talks about MongoDB, and some of the other scalability improvements of Drupal 7. While there are a lot of scalability improvements to Drupal 7, the performance has taken a hit and they're in the process of figuring out the best practices in that area as well including writing a module to integrate with RRDtool, the round-robin database tool that is used for tracking time-series data. Some other monitoring tools that Andrews mentions include mysqlreport, Nagios monitoring and Cacti Graphs.