EE Seattle #4

Hey all! It's time we had another meetup!

IMPORTANT: Instead of having pizza/beer at the meetup this time, let's try meeting at Ballard Pizza Company at 6pm and hang for a bit before heading over to WINTR for the presentations. If you plan on making it early for pizza, leave a comment so folks can plan on seeing each other there.

Practical Caching for ExpressionEngine
Presented by Jimmy Fursman

While caching improves performance and scalability for any web application, no one solution is right for every scenario. Review the importance of caching for dynamic web applications and several solutions for caching page content, including user-specific content. Discuss practical caching tools in ExpressionEngine including EE's native cache and CE Cache with several different backends (Redis, Memcache, Varnish, File System, MySQL DB, etc). Live benchmark tests of several different solutions on a standard EE blog site.

Behind the scenes on www.sasquatchfestival.com
Presented by Matt Fordham

We'll take a look at what went into building the Sasquatch Festival's 2013 website, how it ran smoothly under high traffic, and how the content was managed.