Google Cloud Storage allows you to replace the local file system with Google Storage. Files uploaded into Drupal will still be managed by Drupal, but instead of being stored on the local server, files will be stored in Google Cloud Storage.
This project aims to write a materialization plugin for Views. It creates a "materialized view" for a "view", and then materialize the results into temporary tables.
This module provides a pager for MySQL-backed views which uses the SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS hint to provide pager count information, avoiding a separate SELECT COUNT(*) query.