Tips and tricks, and (hopefully eventually) general guidelines on how to design, deploy and manage your Zope application/Zope server to become screaming fast.
References and links - please update and prioritise these
- Zope and Apache - most people run apache in front of zope
- Scaling Zope - Chris McDonough's presentation
- Optimising Zope 2002-08-26 Richard Jones, with comments from Anthony Baxter, Bakhtiar A Hamid and Chris Withers.
- Re: How to make Zope fail nicely under high load?
- Optimising Python on multi-processor machines 2002-09-03 gblp
- SpeedPack? speeds up Plone (and CMF ?)
- Profiling, Benchmarking and Caching in Plone (PDF) Andy McKay
- A good optimization opportunity
- Re: Optimizing catalog queries in CMF
- High Performance Zope How-to
- Is threading in zope useful ? - [zope-dev]? 2004/04
- http://plone.org/events/conferences/1/video/index_html#caching
- http://plone.org/events/conferences/1/video/index_html#scaling
- Sean Hastings' description of ConflictErrors
- Definitive Guide To Plone's Administering and Scaling Plone chapter
- http://doc.lld.dk/wiki/CachingWithApache and other docs at http://doc.lld.dk/wiki
- http://www.plope.org/misc/szweb
- http://www.clearwind.ca/talks/profiling_and_caching.pdf
- http://poked.org/entries/needforspeed
- I suggest that you have a look at Mark Nottingham's "Caching
Tutorial",
- http://www.ifpeople.net/resources/downloads/PlonePerformance.pdf
- http://www.cheimes.de/opensource/docs/memoryleaks
- Zope and Pound Pound is a reverse proxy for zope that features easy setup of a load-balancing environment (and SSL encryption)
- http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/StabilityHOWTO
- http://plone.org/events/regional/nola05/collateral/Geoff%20DAvis-Caching.pdf
- http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1232 - detailed explanation of why RAMCache? is not recommended for caching whole web pages