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Building Big Websites with Drupal
- 1. Building Big Websites Drupal Show and Tell, Thu Oct 24, 2013
- 2. Who Are We? • Andy Read (Andy.Read@Capgemini.com) • Temi Jegede (Temi.Jegede@Capgemini.com) (140,000 people) (140 people) Drupal Sites
- 3. Big Sites: It’s Not Rocket Science Rockets 101 1 billion users Arc 3 day round trip Thrust Gravity Just follow the laws of physics My Big Site 101 3 sec round trip!! Dozens of Servers Numerous 3rd-party services Virtually infinite complexity! It’s Much, Much Harder!
- 4. Goals • • • • • • • Scale (number of concurrent users) Performance (fast response time) Functional Scope Integration with 3rd-party services Team size and many roles (Dev, Test, Ops, BA...) Testability / Reliability / Reproducibility Security & Corporate governance (reputation)
- 5. Drupal / LAMP Architecture Drupal Single [virtual] server Apache (Web Server) MySQL PHP File system Linux
- 6. A Bit More Performance Drupal Varnish cache DB Server Apache / PHP Nginx APC MemCache SSD RAM+++ File system Linux MySQL
- 7. Serious Performance! Drupal Apache / Nginx Master DB PHP MemCache File system Drupal RAM+++ Apache / Nginx MySQL SSD PHP Linux Varnish cache MemCache File system RAM+++ SSD Linux Load Balancer SAN Servers ++ Varnish cache Slave DB Network storage Drupal Apache / Nginx MySQL Slave DB PHP MemCache File system Drupal RAM+++ Apache / Nginx SSD PHP MySQL Slave DB Linux MemCache File system RAM+++ SSD Linux MySQL
- 8. But... We’re Not Alone! Product Catalogue Drupal ESB HighPerformance Mega -Site SalesForce Postcode Address Q u e u e JSON / REST XML/WSDL SMTP SOAP Google Analytics More Analytics Yet More Analytics Payment Gateway Identity Check Adobe PDF Email Graylog
- 9. Development Process Test, Test, Test, Unit Test, BDD (Behat), Manual Test... Dev Dev Dev VM VM SIT VM Test Data Code & Configuration (Drupal 8 FTW!) UAT PreProd Prod User Data (!) Content (Editors & Contributors) Git / SVN Automate everything! Review, Build, Test & Deploy
- 10. Team Dynamics The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. Babe Ruth
- 11. Small Site -> Small Team • A Developer • Client • Tools (A dev environment, test/production server)
- 12. Multitasking
- 13. Big Site -> Big Team Multiple different roles within a team: Dev-OPS Developers Project managers Designers Testers Web authors Business analyst Clients
- 14. It can all get very crowded
- 15. GOLDEN RULE: Fragmented job roles but not a fragmented team
- 16. In a perfect situation each team member should have a solid understanding of their job role and also a good grounding and understanding of other team members’ job roles.
- 17. Tools
- 18. The Blind Men and The Elephant Different people with different roles and perspectives will have different ideas of what the “whole” is... Since each person can’t see the whole, we have to have good communication with each other to understand what the whole really is.
- 20. ... and We’re Hiring About Capgemini With more than 125,000 people in 44 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2012 global revenues of EUR 10.3 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model. Learn more about us at www.capgemini.com www.uk.capgemini.com The information contained in this presentation is proprietary. © 2013 Capgemini. All rights reserved. Rightshore® is a trademark belonging to Capgemini.
Editor's Notes
- RMG: 21M Commerce orders / yearEurostar: €2M / day