Launching websites is hard. In the rush of last-minute changes, something always breaks. How could you have known the caching settings were mis-configured? Or maybe it’s the database. Your team is working overtime, but it’s already too late.

Don’t let your site be one of the 60% of Drupal sites that launch late. Take steps now to lock in a perfect launch, every time. The Pantheon Launch Team launches several enterprise sites everyday, and supports hundreds of self-serve customers daily. In this platform-agnostic session, you’ll learn best practices and tools for rooting out problems and doubling site performance by launch day (whether you use PaaS, shared hosting, or your own hardware).

You’ll learn:

• How to lead an agile, coordinated launch with project managers, stakeholders, developers, sysadmins—without spending months herding cats
• What causes 80% of website slowdowns and other problems—and how to obliterate surprises
• Top tools for benchmarking your performance and capacity
• Why you need a cache strategy if you care about performance—and specific things to think about before you configure your settings
• When to automate the launch prep—and when to call on an expert pair of eyes