Providing a Scalable Infrastructure for Whitehouse.gov

In October 2009, the official site of the President, Whitehouse.gov re-launched on Drupal. The preparation, development, and testing of the infrastructure required was an immense effort full of challenges. It was a landmark win for Drupal and did a lot to legitimize Drupal's flexibility, security and scalability to those outside of our community. This session will provide insight into the infrastructure required to power this uniquely visible and high traffic site.

While many of the details of this particular implementation cannot be revealed, the session will address how a site with this caliber of usage deals with traffic spikes, code and infrastructure deployments and scalability. The discussion will include strategies and techniques that include:

* Deploying Drupal in a Scalable Way
* Set up and management of deployment architecture
* Implementing replication architecture
* Building for high availability
* Preparing for disaster recovery