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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">PDX Drupal Users Group</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2011-06-08T18:00:00" datetime="2011-06-08T18:00:00">Wednesday, June 8, 2011 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2011-06-08T19:30:00" datetime="2011-06-08T19:30:00">7:30pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391015'><span class='fn org p-name'>OpenSourcery</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1636 NW Lovejoy Street</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1636%20NW%20Lovejoy%20Street,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Here's what we've got on the agenda:</p> <p><strong>1. "A Million Pageviews an Hour: Extreme Drupal Performance" presented by Aaron Longwell</strong></p> <p>The Kentucky Derby is the most watched horse racing event in the world. It's frequently called "the most exciting two minutes in sports," and is nationally televised on 3 different networks and simulcast worldwide. All that excitement results in <a href="http://www.kentuckyderby.com">www.kentuckyderby.com</a>, the race's official Drupal-powered web site receiving more than 1 million page views in less than an hour.</p> <p>Presented by Aaron Longwell, Chief Technologist at Culture Foundry, this presentation will cover the hardware, software, Drupal modifications and extensions that enabled the site to serve every one of those pages with sub-200ms response times. In particular, Aaron's talk will discuss helpful Drupal modules, Varnish, HTTP in-browser caching, load balancing, redundancy, load testing, Pressflow, Amazon Web Services, and Capistrano--and how each played a part in the Kentucky Derby site.</p> <p>Even small sites with little traffic can benefit from many of the techniques and technologies Aaron will be discussing. The talk will be relatively technical in nature (there will even be a bit of code) but even non-developers should learn something about the principles behind super high performance web sites.</p> <p><strong>2. "Location + Maps: Making it Actually Work" presented by Katrin Silvius</strong></p> <p>In her recent work, Katrin Silvius, senior web developer at One Economy, has discovered all sorts of bugs and workarounds necessary to make location and maps work well together in Drupal. Katrin will discuss some of the things she's learned from her work and we'll open up the discussion to other developers about best practices and nagging problems with implementing location and maps in Drupal.</p> <p>Finally, here are the meeting details:</p> <p>Date: Wednesday, June 8 Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to <a href="https://www.luckylab.com/">Lucky Lab NW</a> at <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/VpTD">1945 NW Quimby</a>, for drinks and conversation!)</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://groups.drupal.org/portland">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>