Performance on Dave Hall Consultinghttps://www.davehall.com.au/tags/performance/Recent content in Performance on Dave Hall ConsultingHugoen-auSat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000Kicking Javascript to the Footer in Drupal 8?https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/08/08/kicking-javascript-footer-drupal-8/Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/08/08/kicking-javascript-footer-drupal-8/As a platform, Drupal has excellent javascript support. Drupal 7 will ship with jQuery 1.4.2 and jQuery UI 1.8, which will make it even easier to build rich user interactions with Drupal. Drupal supports aggregating javascript files to reduce the number of network connections a browser must open to load a page. It is common practice for Drupal themes to put the <script> tag in the <head> section of the page.Solr Replication, Load Balancing, HAProxy and Drupalhttps://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/03/13/solr-replication-load-balancing-haproxy-and-drupal/Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/03/13/solr-replication-load-balancing-haproxy-and-drupal/I use Apache Solr for search on several projects, including a few with Drupal. Solr has built in support for replication and load balancing, unfortunately the load balancing is done on the client side and works best when using a persistent connection, which doesn’t make a lot of sense for PHP based webapps. In the case of Drupal, there has been a long discussion on a patch in the issue queue to enable Solr’s native load balancing, but things seem to have stalled.