WordPress is powering more big sites than ever before—The New York Times, TechCrunch, Microsoft, and Facebook all run sites using the CMS. But to run a high traffic WordPress site, you need the right infrastructure and development practices.
Join Drew Gorton of Pantheon and Jonathan Wold and Weston Ruter of XWP to learn about the proper architectural patterns for scalable website infrastructure as well as optimizations you should use for a large-scale WordPress implementation. They’ll share best practices and guide you through challenges you may encounter.
2. Who are we?
Drew Gorton
Director of Agency and
Community Outreach,
Pantheon
Jonathan Wold
Accounts Director,
XWP
Weston Ruter
Technology Director,
XWP
29. Today’s Topics
● Page Caching
● Object Caching
● Query Performance
● Algorithm Performance
● Searching for Scale
● Elastic Architecture
● Development and Workflow
● A Real-World Scalable Architecture
30. A modern stack:
● Reverse proxy (e.g. Varnish)
● Apache or Nginx
● PHP
● Memcached or Redis
● MySQL and Database
Replication
● ElasticSearch or Solr
● Linux
● Version control (Git)
● CI server