When the new Weather.com launches it will be the highest trafficked Drupal site in existence with over 1 billion page views per month.
via Mediacurrent | Weather.com Moves to Drupal.
On the technical side, our approach was to increase cache efficiency by utilizing Javascript and Edge Side Includes (ESI) for client side rendering as well as optimizing calls made to their content delivery network (CDN), Akamai.
The vulnerability, which became public on Oct. 15, is a SQL injection flaw in a Drupal module that’s designed specifically to help prevent SQL injection attacks.
Buytaert, who is also the founder of Drupal services firm Acquia, has ambitious goals for Drupal, as it continues to shift away from purely a content management system towards a unified Web platform that organisations can standardise on to build Web-based services, for both internal and customer-focussed sites.