Acquia

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This month's Portland Drupal User Group will be next Wednesday, May 10th from 6pm to 8:30pm at Acquia (1120 NW Couch St. Suite 630 Portland, OR 97209).

Food and beverages are hosted by Acquia. We're mixing it up this month. Acquia is providing taco bar catered by Los Gorditos, which is a Mexican restaurant nearby that has vegan/gluten free options. Come at 6pm for food and socializing, and get to know your local Drupal community in a casual welcoming environment.

The presentation will start at about 6:30pm.

Amy Vaillancourt-Sals from ThinkShout will be giving us an encore presentation of her popular DrupalCon talk called Demystifying Rendered Content in Drupal 8 Twig Files. We'll have some extra time after her talk, so come prepared to chat about Drupal front end. Read More...

Topic: Synchronous Replication with MySQL

Summary: (TBD)

Speaker: Kenny Gryp

Kenny is currently Principal Architect at Percona. Bitten somewhere in the late 90s by the open-source bug, most of his spare time was spent working with Linux & OpenBSD servers.

Before joining Percona, he worked at a large social networking company in Europe as DBA & Puppeteer.

Schedule:

6:00 beer, soda, pizza

6:15 presentation

7:15 chat

7:30 end

There will be pizza, so please register on meetup.com so that we can order the proper amount.

Topic: "Drupal just wants to hug your database"

Description: "Drupal is one of the more widely adopted CMSs. It is open source and has a huge developer base. However, I rarely hear a DBA mention having to administer Drupal with anything but frustration and pessimism. At Acquia, we have thousands of Amazon instances running Drupal databases. Most sites are quite different from each other, but some basic principles apply to all. Being the DBA for Drupal does not have to be a negative experience! In addition to covering the generic Drupal MySQL configuration tips, I will cover optimization methods for specific features like semaphores, sessions, Views, and the various Drupal caching layers. I’ll also cover the use of query cache in the Drupal context, which while normally frowned upon in the MySQL community, is often beneficial in maintaining a healthy Drupal site. "

There will be pizza, so please register at meetup so that we can order the proper amount. http://www.meetup.com/Portland-MySQL-User-Group-PDX-MUG/events/224733639/

Due to various scheduling conflicts, the August month's meeting has been delayed and wrapped into an early September one.

An overview of how New Relic does billions of database transactions per day on 70 instances!

Hosted at Acquia's new office location.