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Data has been growing at a rapid pace for last few decades; much of it resides on file servers. However, there is a growing need to make some of this data available over the web that may be consumed via either a web browser or via API. I will discuss managing and publishing data as first class content on websites that goes beyond displaying data as a list of files  and folders. I'll describe our new system that incorporates annotation, discussion, visualization and is extensible.

Overview

We are now living in Cloud era. Therefore, we are managing AWS by developing our own AWS Portal | Cloud Orchestrator by Drupal 8.

We'll introduce our solution (Cloud project) including its requirements and the goal, the value proposition. We would like to show how Drupal 8 can define to manage multiple Cloud infrastructure and why Drupal 8 can be used as Web Application Framework.

Key Points Covered

Decoupling with Drupal has been a topic of much discussion in recent years. With the shift towards more projects being built for multi-channel experiences including mobile apps, wearable devices, digital signage and others, Drupal’s powerful capabilities of flexibility around structured data and editorial experience have worked hard to adapt.

If it is true that the meaning of all communication is the response it elicits; then what should we do to get the results we need? By reducing communication into the simplest parts, it is easier to see their interactions and there-by understand the complex results. We will tour the communication process to understand where it happens, show how it functions, and why it breaks. 

We are developing our Drupal 8 contribution module, Cloud by practicing Scrum for Agile software development. I'll introduce the background story of the reason why we could successfully achieve our super-fast paced development with higher productivity.

The Agenda:

Backdrop CMS is the Drupal fork. It is a faster and less-complex version of Drupal 7 with more features you want, and fewer you don't.

This session will highlight the Backdrop Mission, it's intended audience, and it's guiding principles.

We'll explain the decision making process, introduce the Project Management Committee, and expand on how the project's direction is set by the needs of the whole community.

We'll cover topics like how we handle Security and Stability, and talk about how we're trying to decrease the cost of long-term website ownership.

You're in charge of a website. Or two. Or a dozen. Or several thousand.

In any case, you're "responsible for the health of the service".

What does that mean? How can you, your team, your leadership, or your stakeholders quantify that?

(Spoiler alert: I don't know the answer)

Nevertheless, I can discuss how we at Stanford Web Services track metrics across the following dimensions to try to keep a grasp on the "health of the service":

Many universities are currently moving their online applications to the cloud. 

UCSC has moved many online systems into Amazon Web Services. Attend this session to learn about web hosting with AWS.

In this session, Kristin will demonstrate how to create a very simple static website on AWS S3 and how to automatically create a LAMP stack on AWS EC2 with CloudFormation.

Key concepts: Web hosting, cloud hosting, dev-ops, system administration

Introduction

The session can be viewed here or downloaded below

Drupal 7/8 will reach end-of-life status in November, 2021, and Drupal 9 will be released in 2020.