The train leaves tomorrow, bright and early!  Tree House has been looking forward to this year's DrupalCon for months...we've got two sessions, a brand spankin' new tshirt design, and a super-secret conference swag that I am positive you have never seen before!

I’ll be helping my co-worker Thomas Wysocki give a presentation on practical aspects of scaling Drupal sites. The talk’s called Scaling Drupal: Not IF... HOW. We’ll be giving the first in a long line of talks on Thursday about performance.

Our approach is to show you some of the steps to diagnose performance problems, the tools to use to do so, and a brief overview on how to fix them. We're going to give you a full toolset of solutions to diagnose potential performance problems with your site, and start you down the road to fixing them. If you want to go more in depth about some of these topics, check out these sessions:

Other Performance-Based Sessions

Get more information on building your infrastructure from David Strauss, who helps d.o scale: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/building-infrastructure-you-can-scale-monitor-and-maintain

Get information from Sun on how you can build a very manageable infrastructure: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/when-efficiency-and-managability-matter-drupal-scale

More information on both frontend and backend tuning: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/front-end-performance-%E2%80%93-make-your-website-lightning-fast

Listen to a dedicated talk about CDN integration: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-cdn-integration-easier-more-flexible-and-faster

See how drupal.org can handle 20 million+ hits per month: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupalorg-infrastructure-status-and-growth

Hear more about Amazon's cloud services to scale Drupal: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/scaling-drupal-using-amazon-web-services-aws

Hear John VanDyk talk more in-depth about types of caching at his session: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/inside-drupal-caching-static-variables-memcache

Say Hi!

We’ll also have a booth, and some neat swag. Please feel free to come by our booth and say hello. Watch our @treehouseagency Twitter account for more details.

Those of us not speaking will be hanging out in #treehouseagency on IRC when we can.

Tree House Agency is proud to be a Gold sponsor of DrupalCon DC. We’re very excited to be able to help make this DrupalCon possible with our sponsorship.

We hope to see you in DC or IRC!