Scaling Drupal Through a Pandemic

Time: Wednesday 19th October 13:20-13:55
Room: Ballroom 1
Track: Web Tools & Technologies

The COVID-19 pandemic saw a ten-fold increase in web traffic to government websites that were providing critical information and services to the population.

In this session, I will take a look at some of the key challenges we faced and how scalable hosting infrastructure and performant Drupal architecture was able to rise to the occasion.

This session is for developers and ops teams who are interested in how Cloud infrastructure can be used to support scalable Drupal deployments.

Kim Pepper
Kim is co-founder and Technical Director of PreviousNext. He has been working in the web industry for over 25 years, and spent more than a decade working with Drupal. He is passionately involved in the Drupal community as sprint day organizer, core contributor, core file system maintainer and maintainer of numerous contributed modules.