Living, Breathing, Drupal: The Biology of the Request

webkenny — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:29:09 +0000

Kenny Silanskas

Taken in its simplest form, Drupal is a linear system that starts at line 1 of index.php and executes its code line-by-line until it outputs what a user asked for. What if we could visually explore that process to help us understand exactly how Drupal core actually works? Join webkenny and his zany cast of explorers as we take this journey together and learn the inner workings of the drop.

Intended Audience:

Existing Drupal developers who want to understand the system and graduate from roadie to rock star.

Questions answered by this session:

What is the bootstrap? Laying the groundwork in index.php

What is the hook system and how does it work?

How does a preprocess preprocess its preprocessors? The theme system.

What is update.php and how does it "know" what to do?

Who cares? Using this information to build better sites.

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 10:45 - 11:45

Room:

Arnhem Gallery

Slides:

DCL2011-BIO-KS.pdf

Easy Drupal Hosting Lifecycle: Local Dev, Production Deploy, Cloud Scale, and Sleep Well.

bjaspan — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:00:50 +0000

Barry Jaspan

Drupal site best practice workflow includes initial development on local workstation, testing in a staging environment, and a production environment ranging from a single server to a high-performance high-availability cluster. After initial deployment, future versions go through the same workflow with the additional need to run tests based on the current production database and filesystem.

In this session, I'll demonstrate how to easily develop, test, and scale your Drupal site through this entire lifecycle without losing your mind.

Intended Audience:

This session is for anyone that builds or deploys Drupal sites for their own organization or for clients.

Questions answered by this session:

How can I get develop locally and easily deploy the site to a high performance server or cluster?

How do I seamlessly and automatically scale my production web site up and down to handle varying traffic, without downtime?

How do I keep track of multiple Drupal sites, databases, and files directories, each with a development, testing, and production environment?

How do I ensure my site stays up 24x7 even when one or more servers fail?

Who do I go to when I encounter an server operation or Drupal problem I need help with?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 13:00 - 14:00

Room:

Concert Hall

Slides:

Dev-Deploy-Scale-Sleep.key.pdf

DrupalCon London 2011 - lifecycle

Living, Breathing, Drupal: The Biology of the Request

Easy Drupal Hosting Lifecycle: Local Dev, Production Deploy, Cloud Scale, and Sleep Well.