Join Kieran Lal, Acquia's Drupal community adventure guide, for a review of best practices to insure Drupal site scalability and performance. He reviews the latest techniques for insuring scalability based on Acquia's expertise in supporting customer sites. Drupal site performance is often a combination of monitoring and tuning several underlying technologies.

Key takeways include:

• overview of Web scaling technologies such as reverse proxies, memcache, Web server clustering, and master-slave databases
• best practice architectures for scalability for Drupal sites of various sizes, including the highest traffic Drupal site - myLifetime.com
• a performance checklist and recommended tools for debugging Drupal site performance
• best practices and frontline lessons learned by the Acquia support team based on improving the performance of sites such as MotherJones.com