Dev / DevOps

At Stanford Web Services, I am "responsible for the health of the service" for Stanford Sites, which supports over 2,500 websites.

That's a tall order for someone who doesn't really know what he's doing.

Nevertheless, it's my responsibility not only to ensure that our services remain secure, stable, performant, and scalable, but that we have a vision and strategy for how we're going to do that in the future.

Prerequisites

Intermediate Drupal Back-end knowledge along with basics of how Drupal renders content.

Session details

Deep diving into Drupal 8 Render API , how it is different and better than Drupal 7 rendering mechanism. How Drupal uses placeholders and pipelines to improve page performance.

In our talk, We're going to cover

Decoupling Drupal gives you access to a wide range of front-end tools for creating dynamic interactive interfaces, but fully decoupling means you may have to recreate a lot of functionality that Drupal provides out of the box. A progressively decoupled approach allows you to focus your time and budget on key interfaces while still taking advantage of Drupal features that are often taken for granted.

Don't you wish there was a way you could give each and every user of your module's admin experience a quick and easy way to learn what each setting really did and why it was there?  Good news Drupal 8 users, this is actually in core.  The Tour Module has been in core sine the first release of Drupal 8 and is awaiting you to leverage it.  

A session highlighting best practices around presenting data visually.

If you use the Paragraphs module and wish there was a way to more easily control the layout of referenced paragraphs on a particular node, this might be just what you were looking for. Entity Reference with Layout (ERL), a new module for Drupal 8, combines structured content (a la Paragraphs) with expressive layout control (a la Layout Discovery in core). Now you can quickly add new sections without leaving the content edit screen, choose from available layouts, add text or media to specific regions, drag them around, edit them, delete them, add more, and so on.

It's been seven years since the initial launch of Stanford Sites, the university's free and centrally-supported Drupal platform available to everyone at Stanford. Join us to learn more about plans for adding Drupal 8 as a service to this platform that hosts over 2,000 websites for groups and departments of all sizes as well as individual faculty, students, and staff.

The main UCSF.edu website was built more than 6 years ago now, with only one redesign between its launch and today. Our goal was to look at user-experience issues with our existing content management system (CMS) and create a new website that would be easier to maintain and manage by the public relations staff.  At the same time we upgraded to the most-recent version of Drupal, which improved our ability to maintain support for the long-term while also bringing with it a lot of challenges along the way.

Please come to Happy Hour @ the Treehouse following the last session.

The Treehouse is located downstairs straight ahead, by the red umbrellas and lighted area.