Slides from Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit Keynote on October 3rd 2010

1. Enterprise Drupal
Managing Epic Scope, Scale and Speed
(without losing your hair)
Josh Koenig
CTO Chapter Three
drupal.org/user/3313
@outlandishjosh
Sunday, October 3, 2010

2. Open Source CMS
Summit 2006
“A Trip Down Memory Lane”
• Photos credits: Djun Kim, Boris Mann,
Roland Tanglao
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10. We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
But Are We Across The Chasm?
Image credit: Craig Chelius
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11. “The Enterprise?”
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15. Not Just Corporations
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20. Drupal is Ready
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Are We?

21. Case Study
• 22 content types
• 16 custom modules
• 2 install profiles
• 8 developers for 9 months
• 4500 commits
• 600 issues resolved through QA
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22. Note: maintains
full head of hair!
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23. Note: maintains
full head of hair!
EPIC
SCOPE?
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24. Maintainability
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25. Scalability
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27. Success = Big Win For
Drupal
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28. Successfully Funded
Drupal Improvements!
• Aegir Cluster Support
• Brightcove Module Upgrade
• Varnish Integration
• Panels IN PLACE EDITOR
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31. Enterprise Hurdles
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32. Sales
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33. Scope Creep
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34. Multiple Stakeholders
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35. Platform Requirements
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36. “The Pager”
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37. Tell ‘em What You Told ‘em
• Drupal is already hard, minimize other risks
• Regularize, automate, systematize
• Don’t go too far outside your comfort zone
• Human challenges > Technical challenges
• Reliability is more valuable than brilliance
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38. Tools of the Trade
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40. + + coder.module
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42. www.aegirproject.org
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43. PANTHEON
• Finally, a Platform built for Drupal
• High Performance
• Best Practice Git Development
• Easy Security Updates
• Beta Launch in October
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44. http://www.getpantheon.com
@pantheon_drupal
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45. http://www.getpantheon.com
@pantheon_drupal
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46. http://www.getpantheon.com
@pantheon_drupal
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49. What is Drupal to do?
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50. (back to the beginning)
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51. Let’s do it the Drupal way
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55. uid ain’t nothin’ but a
number
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56. Training
• Teach the Drupal way
• Engage people in the community, not just
the technology
• Reach out to newcomers (e.g. dojo,
summer of code, scholarships)
• More talent needed!
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57. "State of the Drupal" from Paris '09
Credit: Dries Buytaert
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59. Boldly Go
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