Topic — Performance
Performance
Public-sector institutional perspective on performance across cloud infrastructure and CMS operations. Curated articles from the eWay Corp insights archive.
18 articles
Drupal Performance for Institutional Sites: The Operational Discipline That Holds
Drupal performance for institutional sites is a layered discipline: caching at multiple tiers, database hygiene, asset optimization, CDN delivery, and ongoing measurement. This is the operational pattern that produces sustained performance for public-sector Drupal.
WordPress Performance Optimization for Beginners: The Institutional Starting Set
WordPress performance optimization is layered, but most institutional sites only need the foundational set to reach acceptable performance. This is the starter pattern for institutional WordPress operators new to performance work.
Drupal Performance Practitioner's Guide: The Tools and Commands That Move the Needle
Drupal performance work is concrete: specific Drush commands, specific contrib modules, specific configuration changes, specific monitoring queries. This is the practitioner's guide for institutional Drupal teams who need to act on performance, not just theorize about it.
AWS Web Hosting for Institutional Sites: The Decision Filter Across Hosting Models
AWS offers multiple web-hosting models: Lightsail, S3 static hosting, EC2-based architectures, ECS/EKS containers, and Amplify. For institutional sites, the right model depends on the workload profile. This is the decision filter.
Advanced WordPress Optimization: The Techniques Beyond the Foundational Set
After the foundational performance practices are in place, the advanced WordPress optimization techniques deliver incremental gains for institutional sites with high traffic, large content volumes, or specific performance requirements. This is the advanced playbook.
Drupal Caching: A Practitioner's Implementation Guide
Drupal caching for institutional sites is a multi-layer implementation: cache backend, page cache, dynamic page cache, render cache, BigPipe, Varnish, and CDN. This is the practitioner's guide for putting them in place.
Brace Yourself for the Drupal 10 Release: What Institutions Needed to Know
Drupal 10 shipped on December 14, 2022 after a six-month delay, with CKEditor 5, Symfony 6, PHP 8.1, and a deliberate path forward from Drupal 9. This is the prerelease context that shaped institutional planning.
Drupal 10.1: The First Feature Release on the Drupal 10 Series
Drupal 10.1 shipped in June 2023 as the first feature release on the Drupal 10 series. For institutional Drupal operators, the 10.1 release pattern is what to expect from minor releases through the Drupal 10 lifecycle: incremental capability, no breaking changes, routine upgrade.
Drupal Cache Mechanics: How the Layers Actually Work
Drupal's caching architecture (cache tags, cache contexts, dynamic page cache, BigPipe) is more sophisticated than most CMS caching layers. Understanding the mechanics is what separates configured-but-broken caching from caching that produces sustained performance.
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