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These are some of my favorite keynote speaches:

Version 2 has been released for two months and is stable.  Greg took over as maintainer and cleaned out the issue queue and released a stable version of Web services module. View the video here.

Web services uses in Drupal have historically been for Flash, however lately use for Mobile applications has taken off.

The way web services work:

1. Servers receive requests from devices
2. Authentication validates the correct access
3. Services process the request and return a result through the servers to the device

This was a great presentation. 

Doug Vann & Rain Breaw made reference to a presentation on views done 2009 in Los Angeles.

drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal.  You can read documentation to explain more.

"Cloud Computing does not mean what you think it does.  Open Web services and Open Data are just as important as Open source code."

Dries Buytaert welcomed us by saying he was a little nervous facing the 3000 people at DrupalCon SF this year.  He got started by showing a web site Drupalistas stuck in Europe.

This is the first year the Drupal Keynotes are broadcast with live video over the web. 

2.8 million hits per day by Khalid Baheyeldin from 2bits.com

Took a site from .4 million hits, 96,000 hits per week. 65K users 15K Nodes.  Site was locking up every few days

How did we do it?

• Click here to see a video of the presentation
• Click here to see the slides
  

We did not use any of the modules.

Problems

excessive swaping

Many services running that not needed like FTP

No PHP accelerator, no memcache