Google Cloud NEXT '17 - Container Management and Deployment - From Development to Production
Cloud Native Applications
- 12 Factor
- Scale horizontally
- Built in monitoring and metrics
- Operability
Microservices not required; monoliths welcome!
Google Cloud NEXT '17 - Microservices and Kubernetes - New functionality to assemble and operate applications at a higher level
Principles
- Services, not infrastructure
- Interoperability
- Automate everything
Retroactive Unit Testing
So we all know that we should be writing unit tests for our code, right? And on top of that we should be using behaviour driven tests like Behat as part of our continuous integration.
But what about those libraries, modules and websites you wrote ages ago? They don’t have unit tests…
DrupalCon NOLA Notes. Brainshark - Migration from Sitecore in 90 days
Case Study: Brainshark - Migration from Sitecore in 90 days
Existing Site Challenges
- No support and maintenance
- Security risks
- Poor template implementation resulted in design constraints
- Not user friendly
- No batch/bulk item publishing
- Licensing model
- Re-directs problematic
- Didn’t want to host themselves
- Maintenance issues
- No wide adoption so finding the right people was a problem
DrupalCon NOLA Notes. Creating Online Stores with Commerce 2.x on Drupal 8
Creating Online Stores with Commerce 2.x on Drupal 8
Lessons from Commerce 1.x
- Expected site builders to be experts on building a commerce workflow
- Scalability problems
- Prioritise UX