Over the last few weeks we have all watched the #IceBucketChallenge phenomenon that's spreading ALS Awareness across the country and the world. I myself filmed a video using the chilly water of the Bay Area, while donating money to ALSA. That is why this month we are focusing on other Non-Profit organizations with equally great causes. 

One of our newer Enterprise customers recently migrated to Pantheon for a number of reasons; they were struggling with slow performance, downtime and lack of Drupal expertise from their existing vendor. One way we address these challenges is through our 30-day Launch Concierge process, available to all new Enterprise customers.

We chose to standardize on MariaDB as the datastore to power over 100,000 Drupal and WordPress websites. To do this, we manage almost 275,000 individual database containers. Choosing our database technology is not something we take lightly. These databases aren’t just sitting around; the platform averages over 100,000 MariaDB queries per second every day, answering a total of over 260 billion queries over the lifetime of the currently running containers (some have been running for hours, others for months).

Thanks to everyone who came to see me and Howard Tyson of Zivtech present our session on ElasticSearch at Drupalcon LA. We decided to nerd out, both doing our slides in code with Bespoke.js and focusing on getting

If you are still using the same Nginx configuration that you have been for Drupal 7 on your new Drupal 8 install, most things will continue to work; however, depending on the exact directives and expressions you are using, you might notice a few operational problems here and there that cause some minor difficulties.  The good news is that the Drupal configuration recipe in the Nginx documentation has been updated to work with Drupal 8, so if you have a very basic Nginx setup, you can just g

We're going to turn our focus to the application layer and look at the kinds of threats we need to guard against in Drupal and WordPress.