Sascha Grossenbacher

I've been busy working on a large number of performance improvements in Drupal 11.3 and contributed projects, together with @catch56@kolektiva.social and many others.

Everything combined, we're seeing hundreds of queries less on complex pages. On one specific example page that we measured in a cold cache scenario, that's a reduction of 670 queries, 62% of the total queries. And that doesn't even include similarly reduced cache lookups and writes.

Read more on our blog post.

https://www.md-systems.ch/en/blog/2025-12-16/performance-improvements-drupal-11-3

I wrote a bit about the new major version of the redis module that I've been working on and the performance improvements that it brings: https://www.md-systems.ch/en/blog/2025-09-12/performance-and-maintenance-improvements-drupal-redis-module

Wrote a post about the new OOP hooks in Drupal 11.1+, why it's worth converting and how I approach that https://www.md-systems.ch/de/blog/2025-10-19/converting-legacy-hooks

Released Redis 2.0.0-alpha2 with various performance improvements and a neat new drush report that includes more information on expired and invalidated items and impact of cache tag invalidations. https://www.drupal.org/project/redis/releases/2.0.0-alpha2

The alpha quality mostly refers to the API stability, I expect it should run reliable and we're about to roll it out in production.

I wrote about my recent investigations into improving Drupal core and Redis performance: https://www.md-systems.ch/en/blog/2025-01-26/redis-startup-performance-improvements

@mglaman@phpc.social bypass is essentially the admin permission for nodes, just differently named because it was split. Administer nodes is just leftovers that are very very slowly split into dedicated permissions such as the recently added publish content permission

@swentel Something I've wanted to try for a while is to integrate it in our company website, and essentially have articles/blog posts be posts that are shared, or maybe a bit of automation that creates a post for each article if that's easier. Any opinions on whether that's feasible or a good idea? it's also related to https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub/issues/3318782 as public author infos are profile nodes and not users, but it might be sufficient if I can just alter it a bit based on the connected profile