The world of Drupal grows faster in each passing day!
Large companies, especially in media, entertainment and services, seek for solutions on rapid and reliable development for the web. There Drupal plays a major role.

However, it remains a big question: "How and where to scale, with stability, huge sites, made in Drupal?"
The Acquia Cloud mission is to address these issues and grow Drupal as the chosen platform worldwide. From standalone EC2 Cloud servers, to Multi-region worldwide setups.

There are many moving parts when it comes to hosting any website - database tuning, caching layers, Drupal patches and settings, monitoring, backup, staging and more.

In this session we will share the steps taken and lessons learned, while hosting the world's largest sites. Automation, configurations, optimizations, systems engineering, operations ... Crucial factors hard learned!

- What tools to use for scaling Drupal?
- How to pinpoint and solve performance issues?
- Key Customers with Sites needing an audit to grow fast.
- Helping customers understand your systems.
- Maintaining an hosting codebase with highly dynamic performance.
- Monitoring thousands of servers efficiently.
- Have a contingency plan and invest on security.
- Plan for failure.