This presentation will focus on the importance of the Drupal Cache for Drupal development. Discussion will include an overview of available options to improve Drupal performance, including utilizing the difference levels of the Cache, Drupal Pressflow and the Authcache module.

The presenter will discuss real-life examples of projects that benefitted from utilizing the different types of Cache, including Drupal Cache API, Boost, Memcache and CDN caches (Akami, CloudFront, etc). Attendees will learn which type of cache is best for their particular project, best practices for utilization and how to avoid potential roadblocks along the way.