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Meet Mark Sonnabaum: Performance fanatic

Posted on Fri, Feb 15, 2013 15:14 by Jeffrey A. "jam...

Mark Sonnabaum, performance engineer at Acquia, comes to open source on a straighter path than some ... despite his university degree being in music composition! He was a systems administrator at the University of North Texas and chose Drupal – in the Drupal 4 era – as the replacement for a mish-mash of legacy, static systems at the university. Today, he is a contributor who has made significant improvements to how Drupal performs for all of us.

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Meet Michael Cooper: Insight, improving Drupal performance and security

Posted on Mon, Jul 16, 2012 10:32 by Jeffrey A. "jam...

Michael Cooper, Engineering Director for the Acquia Network ("If it's broken, it's probably my fault."), brought a vision with him when he came to Acquia: a tool to manage, optimize, and secure large numbers of Drupal websites easily. This has turned into one of the Acquia Network's crown jewels, Insight, which monitors hundreds of metrics on live Drupal sites and offers not only alerts for more than 170 kinds of potential problems, it also proactively suggests ways you can improve your site' performance, SEO optimization, and more.

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Acquia Search just got a lot better

Posted on Tue, Jul 10, 2012 by Nick Veenhof
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My name is Nick Veenhof and I've been a member of the Drupal community for quite some time now. (more than 5 years it seems!). I've been trying to focus on the Search front, more specifically on the Apache Solr Search Integration front. Since September 2011 I have been working on Acquia Search, the Apache Solr Module and all of its derivatives.

Drupal Gardens adds SSL, RTL language support, streamlined block editing and more

Posted on Thu, Feb 03, 2011 by Chris Brookins
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This sprint the Drupal Gardens team worked on several areas of polish including internationalization, security, multi-image handling, performance and general UX. We hope you like the changes and additions outlined below:

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