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The Birth of Enterprise PHP

You here and read things like this:
PHP is ready for the enterprise
almost daily the last few months. I have some second thoughts on this: I don’t think PHP is ready for the enterprise right now, in my opinion this was allready the case when PHP 5 was released (2004) and maybe even before that. Yahoo! [...]

Drupal performance tuning

This won’t be the last post about Drupal performance tuning I guess.
Some steps you can follow to increase the performance of your Drupal-based website (if you need so), in no particular order:
Don’t let the database handle the cache

Add memcache support (no surprise there): Install memcached on your server (or on a few of them). On [...]