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DrupalCon DC 2009 is one day away, and 2bits.com will be there presenting on Backend Drupal performance optimization and tuning.

This is a topic we often write about in our section dedicated to articles on Drupal performance tuning and optimization for large web sites, and is a very popular section of this web site.

A few days ago, The Guardian, a leading UK based newspaper, featured Ads of The World on their Technology section.

Ads of the World has been running on Drupal for the 4 years it has been in existence, and is a very high traffic site.

2bits.com has released the Nagios monitoring module that integrates your Drupal site (or hundreds of sites!) into with the Nagios monitoring application.

The module reports to Nagios that the site is up and running normally, including:

Symantec has launched a community web site that uses Drupal, and the 2bits.com developed and maintained Userpoints.

See how they use userpoints, and how here.

We have proposed a session for DrupalCon Washington DC 2009. The topic is one that is dear to our hearts and a common : Backend Drupal performance optimization and tuning: a guide for everyone.

This distills the many articles on Drupal performance tuning and optimizations on 2bits.com that we have written over the years. 

Please vote for this session if you would like to attend.

A while ago, we announced the performance logging and monitoring module for Drupal.

As you can see from the comments on that page, it was suggested that the module be included with Devel. We did not give it much thought then, until today,  Moshe gave the final nudge, and we did the intergration today.

Along with this integration, we have the following fixes and features:

the Wikimedia Foundation has decided to standardize their infrastructure on Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS. This means that 400 servers running Wikipedia will eventually be moved to Ubuntu, instead of having a mix of distributions.

We have been using and advocating the relatively under-advertised Ubuntu Server for several years, both for in house development and testing, as well as for client web sites, large and small.

We have been extremely happy with Ubuntu, for the following reasons.

Today, Khalid gave a presentation at the Drupal Users Group of Waterloo Region on Uisng CCK, Views and Panels to build Drupal web sites, with minimal programming.

Here are the slides from the presentation, in PDF format.

Emma Jane Hogbin, of Drupal Socks fame, drove down all the way from Owen Sound to Kitchener today

She gave the same well attended talk she did at Drupal Camp Toronto 2008 on How to port your content from * to Drupal.

On Friday and Saturday May 23 and 24, 2008, both Khalid and Wafaa attended DrupalCamp Toronto.

In addition to the Drupal Performance Optimization for large web sites talk, Khalid presented the Drupal for Fun and Profit talk on how to make a career in Open Source. It was well received, and we hope it inspires some to take the plunge in the Drupal ecosystem, which is aptly described in the talk, with interesting pictures.