DrupalCon NOLA Notes. Applied Progressive Decoupling With Javascript

May 10, 2016

Applied Progressive Decoupling With Javascript

Decoupled Drupal

• Process of employing a different front end from Drupals own
• Speaks to other front ends via RESTful APis
• Not a new concept

DrupalCon NOLA Notes. Dependency Injection in Drupal 8

May 10, 2016

Dependency Injection in Drupal 8

What is Dependency Injection?

Injecting the dependency into your class

DrupalCon NOLA Notes. Get off the Island - But build bridges back!

May 10, 2016

Get off the Island - But build bridges back!

• Complex modules with many custom classes, entities etc can become tightly coupled to Drupal itself
• Even with seperation of concerns it is easy for tighy-coupling to creep in e.g. using variable_get in a PHP class
• Hard to isolate and test classes

DrupalCon NOLA Notes. Handling Powerball Night with Patch

May 10, 2016

Handling Powerball Night with Patch

• Runs on ‘decapitated’ Drupal
• A back-end content platform and a front-end web platform
• Communicates via services
• Programatic cache clearing on content deployment

DrupalCon NOLA Notes. How Puppet Labs Runs on AWS

May 10, 2016

How Puppet Labs Runs on AWS

• Amazon EC2 offers a T2 server which allows burst capacity based on CPU ‘credits’