My first Drupal migration was onto a heavily patched version of Drupal 4.0, back in 2002. I previously ran a popular kernel development blog called KernelTrap, using PHPNuke . I conducted interviews with prominent kernel developers , and posted blog entries about other interesting kernel news, all of which were frequently linked to from the front page of Slashdot (the leading tech news aggregator at the time). This resulted in huge traffic spikes, which would frequently bring the website down , commonly known as " the Slashdot effect ”. In early March of 2002, I received a friendly email from a Belgian developer named Dries Buytaert about a relatively new CMS called Drupal. He told me the CMS would be gaining a near magical-sounding performance-feature called "the page cache," which allowed an entire page to be served out of the database with only a single query, theoretically making Drupal able to withstand even a Slashdotting. During his 2015 keynote at DrupalCon Los Angeles , Dries explained that before starting Drupal, he was following Linux kernel development, "I considered contributing to the Linux kernel and so I would follow a website called KernelTrap. KernelTrap was managed by Jeremy Andrews, and at...

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