Making Drupal fly — The fastest Drupal ever is here!

Together with Fabian Franz from Tag1 Consulting, I had a session about Big Pipe in Drupal 8, as well as related performance/cacheability improvements.

I’ll let the session description speak for itself:

With placeholders (https://www.drupal.org/node/2478483) having just gone into Drupal 8 Core, BigPipe being unblocked now and actively making its way in, Render Strategies around the corner, and out-of-the-box auth-caching in CDNs + Varnish a true possibility on the horizon, those are really exciting times for Drupal 8 Performance. But there is even more …

Come and join us for a wild ride into the depths of Render Caching and how it enables Drupal to be faster than ever.

The Masterplan of Drupal Performance (Next steps)

Here we will reveal the next steps of the TRUE MASTERPLAN of Drupal Performance. The plan we have secretly (not really!) been implementing for years and are now “sharing” finally with all of you! (Well you could look at the issue queue too or this public google doc, but this session will be more fun!)

Learn what we have in store for the future and what has changed since we last talked about this topic in Los Angeles and Amsterdam and why Drupal 8 will even be more awesome than what you have seen so far.

Also see a prototype of render_cache using the exact same Drupal 8 code within Drupal 7 and empowering you to do some of this in Drupal 7 as well.

Get the edge advantage of knowing more

Learn how to utilize cache contexts to vary the content of your site, cache tags to know perfectly when items are expired and cache keys to identify the objects - and what is the difference between them.

Learn how powerful ‘#lazy_builders’ will allow the perfect ESI caching you always wanted and how it will all be very transparent and how you can make your modules ready for the placeholder future.

See with your own eyes how you can utilize all of that functionality now on your Drupal 7 and 8 sites.

Get ready for a new area of performance

We will show you:

• How to take advantage of #lazy_builders
• How to tweak the auto-placeholdering strategies (depending on state of issue at time of session)
• The biggest Do’s and Don’ts when creating render-cache enabled modules and sites
• Common scenarios and how to solve them (mobile sites variation, cookie variation, etc.)
• Drupal using an intelligent BigPipe approach (but a different one, one that is way more like Facebook does it …)

Get to know the presenters

This session will be presented by Wim Leers and Fabian Franz. Wim implemented a lot of what we show here in Drupal 8 and made the APIs easy and simple to use and made cache tags and #lazy_builders a very powerful concept. Fabian has prototyped a lot of this concepts in his render_cache module, introduced powerful Drupal 8 concepts into Drupal 7 and is always one step ahead in making the next big thing. Together they have set out on a crusade to rule the Drupal Performance world to bring you the fastest Drupal ever and with that trying to make the whole Web fast!

Frequently Asked Questions

• I have already seen the session in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, will I learn something new?

Yes, absolutely. While the previous sessions focused more on the basics, this session will also cover how to use #lazy_builders and custom render strategies to empower your Drupal to be fast.

• Will there again be a demo?

Yes, there will again be a nice demo :). You’ll love it!

• Is it even possible to make it even faster than what we have seen?

Yes :)