Amplexor Drupal for the Enterprise seminar - Acquia: dream it, Drupal it by Frederik Demets

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Frederik Demets
Solutions Architect

2. Agenda
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Me
Acquia
Acquia Cloud Enterprise
Cases
Q&A

3. 400+
worldwide
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Acquia gathering 2013

4. Acquia is the Enterprise Guide to Drupal
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Co-founded by the creator of Drupal in 2007
250% 3 year CAGR
4000+ customers, 400+ employees
Offices in Boston, Portland OR, Washington
DC, UK, France, Netherlands, Australia and Sweden
• Positioned as Visionary by Gartner 3X
• Deloitte’s Fast500 Fastest Growing Private Company
2013
Dries Buytaert,
Creator of Drupal
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5. Acquia Customers
Media
Entertainment
Public Sector
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Higher Ed

6. Acquia Customers
High Tech
Pharma / Healthcare
Financial Services
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Others

7. Acquia Customers Benelux
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8. Digital Lifecycle Management: What we do.
Solution arch
24x7x365
Maintenance
burden reduced
Maintain
Plan
Scale
Burstable
resources &
team expertise
Develop
Deploy
Trusted hosting platform
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Technical Acc
Manager
Test
Continuous In
development p

9. Digital Lifecycle Management: What we do.
Solution arch
24x7x365
Maintenance
burden reduced
Maintain
Plan
Scale
Burstable
resources &
team expertise
Develop
Deploy
Trusted hosting platform
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Technical Acc
Manager
Test
Continuous In
development p

10. Two Biggest Concerns of IT Teams
Is my site up?
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11. Two Biggest Concerns of IT Teams
Is it performing as
expected?
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12. The Reality
“A slow business
service is no better
than no business
service.”
Realize Practical Application
Performance Management
February 2013
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13. What does it take to
develop, deploy, host and maintain great
Drupal sites?
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Consistent testing to ensure performance
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Deployments that just work
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Burstable, resilient resources
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High quality code & config
Easy maintenance

14. Let’s dig in
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15. What Makes a Web Project Successful?
HIGH QUALITY
CODE & CONFIG
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16. Streamline Development With our
Automated & Integrated Platform
• Separate Dev, Staging and Production environments
• Source code repository – Git or SVN
• Integrates with Drush
• On-server editing
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Develop

17. Develop
Acquia Insight QA’s Development
Configuration monitoring
Monitors more than 130 settings:
• Performance. Page
caching, memcache, devel…
do you have the right config to
speed performance?
• Security. SSL, user
privileges, PHP errors – are
you settings optimized.
• Best Practices. Views
module not enabled? You’re
going to want to fix that.
Proactive alerts &
recommendations
Configurable email alerts and
practical ‘Help Me Fix’
recommendations.
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18. What Makes a Web Project Successful?
TESTING TO ENSURE
PERFORMANCE
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19. Testing Code & Config Quality is Easy
in Our Staging Environment
• Cloud API allows access to control environment
• Cloud API enables customers to use Cloud Hooks
to build custom tests
• Automate tests when moving from Dev  Stage
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Test

20. Ensure Success with Optimization
Tools
Machine load
testing
100% Jmeter
compatible load testing
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Test

21. What Makes a Web Project Successful?
DEPLOYMENTS
THAT JUST WORK
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22. Deployments just work when you
push to our prod environment
• Production environment protected until code, files,
and db go through staging
• Once test environment is stable, push to prod for
a successful launch!
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Deploy

23. What Makes a Web Project Successful?
BURSTABLE,
RESILIENT
RESOURCES
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24. High performance is ensured with
Acquia’s Drupal-tuned platform
Drupal-tuned platform for sites
large & small
• Single & multi-server
configurations
• Multiple caching layers
• Multi-site configuration
support
• 24x7 monitoring
• Nightly backups
• 4 hour disaster recovery
snapshots
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Scale

25. Acquia Cloud hardware options
Small
1 x m1.small
512MB RAM
1 ECU
Medium
1 x c1.medium
1.7GB RAM
5 ECU
Large
1 x m1.large
7.5GB RAM
4 ECU
Hi CPU
1 x c1.xlarge
7GB RAM
20 ECU
Varnish
Varnish
Varnish
Varnish
Web
Web
Web
Web
DB
ACQUIA CLOUD
DB
DB
FS
DB
FS
FS
Low Complexity
Low Usage
FS
Higher Complexity
Higher Usage, Critical
Uptime
Moderate Complexity
Moderate Usage
LB
LB
LB
LB
LB
LB
Web
Web
FS
Web
Web
Web
DB
FS
Web
Web
DB
Web
DB
ACQUIA CLOUD
ENTERPRISE
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HA - Large
2 x m1.large Web/DB Server
High-Availability
DB
DB
DB
FS
FS
FS
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Multi-Tier Medium
2 x m1.large Database Server
2 x c1.medium Web Server
High-Availability
Multi-Tier Large
2 x m1.large Database Server
4 x c1.medium Web Server
High-Availability

26. Burstable resources never let your
best day become your worst
Dollars wasted
Potential outages
Pay for what you need,
99.95% uptime
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Scale

27. Multi-region failover offers resiliency
for sites that can’t tolerate failure
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Scale

28. What Makes a Web Project Successful?
EASY
MAINTENANCE
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29. Drupal Lifecycle events
Set-up/Launch
Production
Site Evolution
Build
Application updates
Diagnosis
•Load balancers
•Fast page cache
•App Servers
•Database
•File systems
•Web servers
•App Configuration
•HA architecture
• Drupal App code
• Security release
•Site/App failure
•Infrastructure failure
•Security Breach
•DDOS
•Traffic spike
Deploy
•Integrated Git/SVN
•Drag and drop content
management
Infrastructure
updates
• OS
• Debugging
• Security
Resolution
•Resize
•Recover (Multi-region)
Operations
• 24X7 monitoring & alerts •Staging/QA
• Backups
•Caching strategies
• Load testing
•Customize
Requires expert skills and significant time
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30. Can I build this myself?
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31. Platform as a Service stack
World Class
Application Support
24/7 break-fix, Advisory support, Technical account
managers, Audits: Site, security, performance
Application Network
Services
Search, Spam, Insight, Mobile, Functional
testing, Marketing testing, Load testing, Runtime
reporting
Application
Lifecycle
Management
Customized environment, Analyze, Code
management, Workflow, Cloud migration
Platform Features
Platform
Architecture
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Virtual elastic cloud
Low
Cost, Flexible, Reli resources, High
availability, Configuration
able
management, Monitoring, Opti
mization, Caching

32. Sure, but some assembly is required
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33. Count on stability thanks to our global
ops team working 24x7
Custom code
• We manage the 10 layers of PaaS
• Everything from virtual machines
to config management
• We even support your custom
code!
Drupal Support
Network Services
Remote administration
Development lifecycle
Monitoring
Optimization
Configuration management
High availability
Virtual Machine
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Maintain

34. You won’t be caught off guard with
infrastructure & security monitoring
Infrastructure &
Application Health
Security Scanning
Acquia uses Rapid7 to
perform authenticated host
based vulnerability scans on
our servers.
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Acquia uses OSSEC to detect
brute force login attempts.
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Acquia utilizes Qualys at the
Drupal layer to conduct
vulnerability scans on request
for customers.
• Acquia has instant access to
vital real time and historical
metrics of the servers we
provision.
• Acquia monitors over 50
metrics, which are linked to
alerts via email, SMS, and
pager.
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Third party tools
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Customers can take
advantage of free access or
free trials for these testing
and monitoring tools to
improve performance.

35. Sleep better; We’ve got your back
An SLA that won’t let you down:
• 24x7x365 critical issue response
• You choose the level of
engagement your business
needs
World class team of Drupalists:
• Global team of support pros
• Resolve thousands of tickets
and advisory hours per year
Automated site monitoring
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Support that
follows the sun.
Maintai
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36. Rest-assured you’re in compliance
with security requirements
Acquia Cloud is the most secure Drupal-tuned platform available. The status
of our compliance with these regulations can be found in Documentation.
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Maintain

37. Comparing Acquia Cloud
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38. Comparing Acquia Cloud
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39. Comparing Acquia Cloud
Acquia Cloud
Traditional Managed
Hosting
Internal Hosting
Drupal Tuned Stack
✓
MAYBE
DIY
Multi-tier Caching Support
✓
DIY
DIY
Server Support
✓
MAYBE
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Disaster
Recovery
✓
MAYBE
DIY
24x7 Monitoring
✓
DIY
DIY
Security
✓
MAYBE
DIY
Drupal Support
✓
✗
DIY
Drupal Maintenance
✓
✗
✗
Drupal Administration
✓
✗
DIY
Drupal Optimization Tools
✓
✗
✗
Drupal Developer Tools
✓
MAYBE
✗
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40. Cases
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41. Cases
- Gentse Feesten
- Mobistar
- RTL Nieuws
- Swift
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42. 60 + 40
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60% reduction in cost
40% faster time to market

43. Thank you!
Any questions?
frederik.demets@acquia.com
@fdemets
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