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• Al Jazeera: Handling traffic spikes with cloud services and Drupal

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  By Uzair Parker: Staff reporter
  03.08.11 | 3 Comments
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  The recent Egyptian revolution which saw the overthrow of former President Mubarak garnered world wide publicity with millions of viewers tuning in to Al Jazeera for live broadcasting on the day-to-day events.The online global interest saw the media conglomerate of the Middle East reach peak records in traffic to its site as the news agency's web servers were strained to the maximum.To counter the surge, Al Jazeera transfered its Drupal-based live blog, Al Jazeera Live, to Acquia's fully managed ...

• Five great under-the-radar Drupal Modules you need to know about

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  By Gareth Davies
  06.04.10 | 3 Comments
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  I’ve seen a few blog posts and screencasts over the past few weeks about Drupal’s ever-growing list of modules. Most notably, Matt Petrowsky’s outstanding screencast “Top Drupal Modules” at www.gotdrupal.com.While useful to those new to Drupal, they all seem to focus on the modules that all Drupal developers know about, or should know about at least. I use modules like Admin Menu, Views, CCK and the Date modules as often as I breathe air, so I thought I’d go through ...

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