Prepare to Scale

"Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan."
Harvey Mackay

Any site with high aspirations should have a plan in place to scale. The key is to identify the components that can help you scale and when you should implement them.

In this presentation, I'll go over - at a high level - the infrastructure of sites from basic to advanced. I'll map the infrastructure as I lay it out for clients, Memcached [what it does and why you want it], Static Caching, and Solr. I'll delve deeper into any topic that people are interested in, but try to at least provide the basics for various technologies and practices.

My goal in the presentation will be to try and provide a high enough understanding of all the relevant technologies to help your thought process when building your site and planning for traffic.