Profile and optimize your Drupal 8 site like a Pro

knfrazer

Learn to find and fix performance bottlenecks across the entire Drupal 8 stack, including PHP, MariaDB, the file system, and even the front end code. See real-world examples from the Drupal 8 codebase and ecosystem. Experience the best tools available for profiling your Drupal 8 site.

Using excellent tools such as Blackfire.io running on Platform.sh, we will show you the exact process for spotting, understanding, and fixing a wide range of possible performance problems that can haunt your site. We will be drawing on real-world examples and showing you how to apply your fixes to live sites.

Learning Objectives

You will understand the different types of performance problems to look out for.

You will see how to spot them using best-of-breed tools.

You will know how to approach fixing them.

Target Audience

This session is for developers who want to learn how to spot, understand, and fix a wide range of possible performance problems that can haunt their site.

Prerequisites

  • Attendees will benefit from this session if they have a basic understanding of most or all of the layers of a web application. We will be discussing HTTP requests and headers, CSS and JS rendering, PHP code execution, caching, reading and writing to file systems, network throughput, and more, all in the context of spotting and understanding performance problems for Drupal.

Track

Quality Assurance & Testing

Tags

drupal 8
performance
scaling
testing

Experience Level

Intermediate

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