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DrupalCon NOLA Notes. The Future of Drupal Performance - Parallel Worlds

The Future of Drupal Performance - Parallel Worlds

We load:

  • Service container
  • All the classes

We run:

  • Session intialization
  • Authorization
  • Routing

We always start from zero (even though we cache a lot)

Not necessarily bad, just how the CGI model works. It means we do potentially unecessary work.

DrupalCon NOLA Notes. Applied Progressive Decoupling With Javascript

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

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!

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

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