Cloud computing offers many advantages and challenges for hosting Drupal sites. Acquia Hosting is a highly available cloud-based hosting platform tuned for Drupal performance and scalability. Acquia Hosting built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), takes advantage of an industry leading cloud-computing platform to provide the highest levels of security, fault-tolerance and operational controls possible in the cloud. This Webinar, featuring Barry Jaspan, Senior Architect at Acquia and Jeff Barr, Senior Evangelist Amazon Web Services, discusses how Amazon's Web Services can help Drupal site developers and managers solve common but vexing problems, including scaling. The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) components will be discussed in detail.
In addition we will discuss specific best practices for:
* Creating a high-performance, high-availability Drupal tuned hosting environment on AWS
* Load balancing: Elastic IP vs. Elastic Load Balancing
* Handling user-uploaded files with multiple web nodes
* Achieving true high-availability with multiple availability zones
* Choosing between Amazon Relational Database Service and building it yourself
* Configuring and managing your cloud servers
A presentation discussing how to run a large-scale Drupal installation using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The final system is capable of serving millions of unique pages, and storing tens of terabytes of data.
First presented at DrupalCamp Brighton in January 2015. There is an hour long recording of this presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh_yBzRpOnk
Scaling drupal horizontally and in cloudVladimir Ilic
Vancouver Drupal group presentation for April 25, 2013.
How to deploy Drupal on
- multiple web servers,
- multiple web and database servers, and
- how to join all that together and make site deployed on Amazon Cloud (Virtual Private Cloud) inside
- one availability zone
- multiple availability zones deployment.
Session cover details about what you need in order to get Drupal deployed on separate servers, what are issues/concerns, and how to solve them.
Scaling Drupal in AWS Using AutoScaling, Cloudformation, RDS and moreDropsolid
Given at DrupalJam 2015 - Netherlands.
This presentation explains some of the fundamental issues you have to overcome when designing software for distributed systems that can fail. Also called "Cloud" in other terminologies. The presentation uses AWS components to explain these fundamentals and uses Drupal as the example application. The example is by no means perfect, but gives you a good idea how to design your system from scratch.
Technologies used:
Cloudformation
EC2 Instances
RDS MySQL Database
Elastic Load Balancer
ElastiCache (Memcache)
Example can be found here:
https://gist.github.com/nickveenhof/601c5dc1b76ff26896bf
Take note that the example does not include components such as VPC for simplicity, but it is highly recommended to add this.
A presentation discussing how to run a large-scale Drupal installation using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The final system is capable of serving millions of unique pages, and storing tens of terabytes of data.
First presented at DrupalCamp Brighton in January 2015. There is an hour long recording of this presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh_yBzRpOnk
Scaling drupal horizontally and in cloudVladimir Ilic
Vancouver Drupal group presentation for April 25, 2013.
How to deploy Drupal on
- multiple web servers,
- multiple web and database servers, and
- how to join all that together and make site deployed on Amazon Cloud (Virtual Private Cloud) inside
- one availability zone
- multiple availability zones deployment.
Session cover details about what you need in order to get Drupal deployed on separate servers, what are issues/concerns, and how to solve them.
Scaling Drupal in AWS Using AutoScaling, Cloudformation, RDS and moreDropsolid
Given at DrupalJam 2015 - Netherlands.
This presentation explains some of the fundamental issues you have to overcome when designing software for distributed systems that can fail. Also called "Cloud" in other terminologies. The presentation uses AWS components to explain these fundamentals and uses Drupal as the example application. The example is by no means perfect, but gives you a good idea how to design your system from scratch.
Technologies used:
Cloudformation
EC2 Instances
RDS MySQL Database
Elastic Load Balancer
ElastiCache (Memcache)
Example can be found here:
https://gist.github.com/nickveenhof/601c5dc1b76ff26896bf
Take note that the example does not include components such as VPC for simplicity, but it is highly recommended to add this.
(ARC311) Extreme Availability for Mission-Critical Applications | AWS re:Inve...Amazon Web Services
More and more businesses are deploying their mission-critical applications on AWS, and one of their concerns is how to improve the availability of their services, going beyond traditional availability concepts. In this session, you will learn how to architect different layers of your application―beginning with an extremely available front-end layer with Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling, and going all the way to a protected multitiered information layer, including cross-region replicas for relational and NoSQL databases. The concepts that we will share, using services like Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Route 53, will provide a framework you can use to keep your application running even with multiple failures. Additionally, you will hear from Magazine Luiza, in an interactive session, on how they run a large e-commerce application with a multiregion architecture using a combination of features and services from AWS to achieve extreme availability.
Nuts and bolts of running a popular site in the aws cloudDavid Veksler
I will share how we develop and host a popular publishing platform in the cloud with a limited budget and technology team.
We'll cover architecture, including a variety of services at Amazon Web Services such as elastic load balancing, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, and RDS in the context of a real site.
We'll cover how we control costs with Spot and burstable instances and scale up with distributed caching.
Finally we'll discuss continuous deployment strategies for Windows and Linux-based cloud applications in the context of a distributed team using an agile process.
AWS as platform for scalable applicationsRoman Gomolko
Introduction to Amazon Web Services that allow to concentrate on your application rather then concentrating on infrastructure needed to run. Following services are briefly exposed Beanstalk, RDS, DynamoDB, DynamoDB streams, Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront.
AWS Webcast - Backup & Restore for ElastiCache/Redis: Getting Started & Best ...Amazon Web Services
ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. With the introduction of Redis Backup and Restore, you can now create a snapshot of your entire ElastiCache for Redis cluster as it exists at a specific point in time. Schedule automatic, recurring daily snapshots, as well as initiate a manual snapshot at any time.
In this webinar, we'll discuss what you can do with this new capability, explain how it works, and describe how to get the most out of it. Key reasons to attend:
- Get a brief overview of Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
- Learn about use cases for the new backup/restore functionality
- Discover important best practices
- Get answers about the service
This slide set was from a talk I gave on June 13, 2013 at Windsor Hackforge (hackf.org).
It's aimed at current or aspiring software developers who are interested in learning about cloud computing in general, and how to get up and running on Amazon's AWS Platform.
Whether you're new to virtualization and cloud services, or already familiar with the concepts and looking to ramp up quickly on the AWS service stack, there will be some useful information for you in this presentation.
Deep Dive into Amazon ElastiCache Architecture and Design Patterns (DAT307) |...Amazon Web Services
Peek behind the scenes to learn about Amazon ElastiCache's design and architecture. See common design patterns of our Memcached and Redis offerings and how customers have used them for in-memory operations and achieved improved latency and throughput for applications. During this session, we review best practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns related to Amazon ElastiCache. We also include a demo where we enable Amazon ElastiCache for a web application and show the resulting performance improvements.
Accelerating Application Performance with Amazon ElastiCache (DAT207) | AWS r...Amazon Web Services
Learn how you can use Amazon ElastiCache to easily deploy a Memcached or Redis compatible, in-memory caching system to speed up your application performance. We show you how to use Amazon ElastiCache to improve your application latency and reduce the load on your database servers. We'll also show you how to build a caching layer that is easy to manage and scale as your application grows. During this session, we go over various scenarios and use cases that can benefit by enabling caching, and discuss the features provided by Amazon ElastiCache.
Configuration Management with AWS OpsWorks for Chef AutomateAmazon Web Services
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status. The Chef server gives you full stack automation by handling operational tasks such as software and operating system configurations, package installations, database setups, and more. The Chef server centrally stores your configuration tasks and provides them to each node in your compute environment at any scale, from a few nodes to thousands of nodes. OpsWorks for Chef Automate is completely compatible with tooling and cookbooks from the Chef community and automatically registers new nodes with your Chef server.
Acquia Managed Cloud: Highly Available Architecture for Highly Unpredictable ...Acquia
Visit this page to view a recording of this webinar - http://www.acquia.com/resources/acquia-tv/conference/acquia-managed-cloud-highly-available-architecture-highly
Building enterprise high availability application with drupalRatnesh kumar, CSM
Enterprise Application
Enterprise Application Characteristics
Drupal’s Competitors in WCM
Things to know before designing Enterprise Application Architecture
Available Technology
Proposed Architecture for Enterprise CMS
(ARC311) Extreme Availability for Mission-Critical Applications | AWS re:Inve...Amazon Web Services
More and more businesses are deploying their mission-critical applications on AWS, and one of their concerns is how to improve the availability of their services, going beyond traditional availability concepts. In this session, you will learn how to architect different layers of your application―beginning with an extremely available front-end layer with Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling, and going all the way to a protected multitiered information layer, including cross-region replicas for relational and NoSQL databases. The concepts that we will share, using services like Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Route 53, will provide a framework you can use to keep your application running even with multiple failures. Additionally, you will hear from Magazine Luiza, in an interactive session, on how they run a large e-commerce application with a multiregion architecture using a combination of features and services from AWS to achieve extreme availability.
Nuts and bolts of running a popular site in the aws cloudDavid Veksler
I will share how we develop and host a popular publishing platform in the cloud with a limited budget and technology team.
We'll cover architecture, including a variety of services at Amazon Web Services such as elastic load balancing, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, and RDS in the context of a real site.
We'll cover how we control costs with Spot and burstable instances and scale up with distributed caching.
Finally we'll discuss continuous deployment strategies for Windows and Linux-based cloud applications in the context of a distributed team using an agile process.
AWS as platform for scalable applicationsRoman Gomolko
Introduction to Amazon Web Services that allow to concentrate on your application rather then concentrating on infrastructure needed to run. Following services are briefly exposed Beanstalk, RDS, DynamoDB, DynamoDB streams, Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront.
AWS Webcast - Backup & Restore for ElastiCache/Redis: Getting Started & Best ...Amazon Web Services
ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. With the introduction of Redis Backup and Restore, you can now create a snapshot of your entire ElastiCache for Redis cluster as it exists at a specific point in time. Schedule automatic, recurring daily snapshots, as well as initiate a manual snapshot at any time.
In this webinar, we'll discuss what you can do with this new capability, explain how it works, and describe how to get the most out of it. Key reasons to attend:
- Get a brief overview of Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
- Learn about use cases for the new backup/restore functionality
- Discover important best practices
- Get answers about the service
This slide set was from a talk I gave on June 13, 2013 at Windsor Hackforge (hackf.org).
It's aimed at current or aspiring software developers who are interested in learning about cloud computing in general, and how to get up and running on Amazon's AWS Platform.
Whether you're new to virtualization and cloud services, or already familiar with the concepts and looking to ramp up quickly on the AWS service stack, there will be some useful information for you in this presentation.
Deep Dive into Amazon ElastiCache Architecture and Design Patterns (DAT307) |...Amazon Web Services
Peek behind the scenes to learn about Amazon ElastiCache's design and architecture. See common design patterns of our Memcached and Redis offerings and how customers have used them for in-memory operations and achieved improved latency and throughput for applications. During this session, we review best practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns related to Amazon ElastiCache. We also include a demo where we enable Amazon ElastiCache for a web application and show the resulting performance improvements.
Accelerating Application Performance with Amazon ElastiCache (DAT207) | AWS r...Amazon Web Services
Learn how you can use Amazon ElastiCache to easily deploy a Memcached or Redis compatible, in-memory caching system to speed up your application performance. We show you how to use Amazon ElastiCache to improve your application latency and reduce the load on your database servers. We'll also show you how to build a caching layer that is easy to manage and scale as your application grows. During this session, we go over various scenarios and use cases that can benefit by enabling caching, and discuss the features provided by Amazon ElastiCache.
Configuration Management with AWS OpsWorks for Chef AutomateAmazon Web Services
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status. The Chef server gives you full stack automation by handling operational tasks such as software and operating system configurations, package installations, database setups, and more. The Chef server centrally stores your configuration tasks and provides them to each node in your compute environment at any scale, from a few nodes to thousands of nodes. OpsWorks for Chef Automate is completely compatible with tooling and cookbooks from the Chef community and automatically registers new nodes with your Chef server.
Acquia Managed Cloud: Highly Available Architecture for Highly Unpredictable ...Acquia
Visit this page to view a recording of this webinar - http://www.acquia.com/resources/acquia-tv/conference/acquia-managed-cloud-highly-available-architecture-highly
Building enterprise high availability application with drupalRatnesh kumar, CSM
Enterprise Application
Enterprise Application Characteristics
Drupal’s Competitors in WCM
Things to know before designing Enterprise Application Architecture
Available Technology
Proposed Architecture for Enterprise CMS
After learning the basics, it's time to level up with Taskworld. Learn more about networking, notifications , multiple assignees and finishing tasks. Watch the video or check out the slides.
Stop selling Drupal, start selling solutions to business problems. Jeffrey McGuire
Using open source solutions like Drupal can save you money. Hurray! The bottom line always counts, especially today. No one should be wasting money.
But there are important reasons to use open source solutions beyond the price tag. The "Four Freedoms" that define open source software also define real business value: innovation, cost-savings, and risk mitigation. If you understand the true value in open source software and in a massively successful project like Drupal, you can bring your organization real benefits and add real value.
Let's think open source (let's think Drupal!), be its champions and explain it to our colleagues, bosses, friends, and decision makers: whether your MP, European bureaucracy, or marketing department.
Some questions and issues addressed by this session:
- The real values offered by the open source model and how to pitch it without "sounding like a software hippie".
- Explained: The open source model is clearly a safer, cheaper, and more innovative model for businesses and others.
Mixing performance, configurability, density, and security at scale has, historically, been hard with PHP. Early approaches have involved CGIs, suhosin, or multiple Apache instances. Then came PHP-FPM. At Pantheon, we've taken PHP-FPM, integrated it with cgroups, namespaces, and systemd socket activation. We use it to deliver all of our goals at unheard-of densities: thousands and thousands of isolated pools per box.
Culture in an organization can either be a great asset or a liability. This side is meant to contrast what we believe are nurturing behaviors with those that we think are damaging.
How Cloud PaaS Improves Performance while Reducing CostsAcquia
As IT organizations increasingly face the challenges of managing the complexity of delivering superior application performance and reliability across a disparate range of technology and deployment environments, the Cloud has emerged as a cost-effective means to build virtual data centers. But Infrastructure platforms like Amazon Web Services don't preclude companies from needing experienced systems administrators to build and manage their applications.
In order to address this gap, companies such as Acquia, have begun providing PaaS, Platform as a Service offerings, which includes not only the physical hardware, but also provides an expertly managed, application appropriate stack. Which means organizations can focus more singularly on their applications.
Jeff Kaplan, who has been at the forefront of exploring the business implications of “on-demand” services, will lead a discussion with Bryan House, the VP Product Marketing at Acquia, around how Acquia's offering of a Drupal Platform as a Service is helping IT organizations meet this challenge.
Using the open-source WCMS, Drupal, Acquia's Cloud platform and specific customer case studies, participants will learn what PaaS really means to an organization in terms of both delivering improved performance while reducing costs.
Current State of Affairs – Cloud Computing - Indicthreads Cloud Computing Con...IndicThreads
Session presented at the 2nd IndicThreads.com Conference on Cloud Computing held in Pune, India on 3-4 June 2011.
http://CloudComputing.IndicThreads.com
Abstract: Cloud Computing has had phenomenal growth over the past year and continues to entrench itself in all facets of IT. Cloud Computing is definitely more than just a buzz word or a passing trend. Now the heavy weights like IBM, HP and SAP are ready lock horns with existing players like Amazon, Salesforce and Microsoft whose offerings have matured over a period of time. Besides these big players, a lot of start ups are coming up with innovative offerings in this space.
The talk is about the current state of affairs in the cloud computing. It will cover the products, services and offerings that have been making a lot of noise in the cloud computing space.
Following are the main points that will be covered in the talk:
1. New Players: A lot of enterprise market giants are now coming to the cloud party offering infrastructure and platform services. IBM has come out with its SmartCloud for private as well as public clouds. Oracle has released its Cloud-in-a-box solution. The talk will cover all the new offerings by these enterprise giants.
2. Old Players, New offerings – Amazon being the leader in the Cloud Infrastructure space has rolled out a lot of new products and services, strengthening its hold in the market and expanding into the PaaS segment. Amazon Beanstalk, Amazon CloudFormation and EC2 Dedicated instances most notably have the power to be game changers. SalesForce the leader in the Cloud SaaS space released database.com, enterprise cloud database and its “PaaS” offering similar to GAE – VMforce.com This section will cover the new offerings by the players.
3 .Interesting Players in the cloud ecosystem: There have been a lot of new players who are leveraging the cloud to build some exciting products like Scalable API platforms, Cloud-based logging, Java in the Cloud. etc eg. Apigee, PiCloud, Loggly,Cumulogic, Cloudbees being some of them. This section will cover most of the exciting platforms and technologies these companies are working on.
4. Current Trends and Future: This section will cover the current trends(where a lot of startups are investing in) and how the future will look like in the cloud space.
Finally, the talk plans to “arm” developers and architects with the latest and cutting edge platforms, products and technologies in the cloud that have been developed and made available over the last year, helping them to leverage the cloud and make better choices leading to higher ROI and lesser TCO.
Speaker:
Chirag Jog, is the CTO at Clogeny Technologies where the main focus is on Innovation in the Cloud Computing, Scalable Applications and Storage space. He is the chief geek at Clogeny who talks “Cloud” and works on architecting exciting ideas in the cloud space. He has previously spoken at IndicThreads, CloudCamp and other cloud related events.
O'Reilly Webcast: Architecting Applications For The CloudO'Reilly Media
This presentation analyzes aspects of the Amazon EC2 IaaS cloud environment that differ from a traditional data center and introduces general best practices for ensuring data privacy, storage persistence, and reliable DBMS backup. Presented by Jorge Noa, CTO of Hyperstratus
by Martin Schade, Enterprise Solutions Architect, & Gareth Eagar, Solutions Architect, AWS
Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as the ability to scale your web application or website on demand. If you have a new web application and want to use cloud computing, you might be asking yourself, "Where do I start?" Join us in this session to understand best practices for scaling your resources from one to millions of users. We show you how to best combine different AWS services, how to make smarter decisions for architecting your application, and how to scale your infrastructure in the cloud.
Scaling on AWS for the First 10 Million Users at Websummit DublinAmazon Web Services
In this talk from the Dublin Websummit 2014 AWS Technical Evangelist Ian Massingham discusses the techniques that AWS customers can use to create highly scalable infrastructure to support the operation of large scale applications on the AWS cloud.
Includes a walk-through of how you can evolve your architecture as your application becomes more popular and you need to scale up your infrastructure to support increased demand.
Scaling on AWS for the First 10 Million Users at Websummit DublinIan Massingham
In this talk from the Dublin Websummit 2014 AWS Technical Evangelist Ian Massingham discusses the techniques that AWS customers can use to create highly scalable infrastructure to support the operation of large scale applications on the AWS cloud.
Includes a walk-through of how you can evolve your architecture as your application becomes more popular and you need to scale up your infrastructure to support increased demand.
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SV Forum Platform Architecture SIG - Netflix Open Source PlatformAdrian Cockcroft
Architecture overview of Netflix Cloud Architecture with a focus on the Open Source components that Netflix has put and is planning to release on http://netflix.github.com
SDEC2011 Using Couchbase for social game scaling and speedKorea Sdec
A social game, by it's very nature, can spread very quickly to a large user population. Because the game is typically interactive, the speed of retrieving information needed for the user's interactions with the system is critical. When building their new game Animal Party, the developers at Tribal Crossing needed to get away from the complexity of sharding an SQL database. They also were looking for a solution to the administration cost associated with the operation of traditional data stores. When evaluating multiple different NoSQL solutions, they realized that Couchbase's Membase server meets most of their critical requirements in developing their game software. Simple to use, Couchbase's model allows Tribal Crossing to easily model their game interactions with the key/value data store. Fast read and write performance is required with interactive, social games, and they found that support in Membase as well. Elastic scalability is easily achieved by simply adding more nodes to the Couchbase cluster without any modifications required to the application. Relying on Couchbase's technology Tribal Crossing has been able to quickly build and scale Animal Party with a small team and no dedicated system administrators.
http://sdec.kr/
Slides for a discussion about Cloud Computing organised by the Isle of Man Branch of the BCS in September 2012. These slides introduce Cloud Computing, delve into some detail on Mcirosoft Azue and Amazon Web Services and pose some questions as to suitability, consideration and risks to be discussed. This talk was presented by Arron Clague from Synapse Consulting and Owen Cutajar from Intelligence Ltd
For people who start to create a cloud service, it’s really important to know how to create a scalable cloud service to fit the growth of the future workloads. In this session, we will introduce how to design a scalable cloud service including AWS services introduction and best practices.
Similar to Amazon Web Services Building Blocks for Drupal Applications and Hosting (20)
"Your customer data flows faster each day, which is why collecting, organizing, and doing something meaningful with it is just good business.
But, it can be tough to do.
Stashing data in different places across your organization to come back (hopefully) later is a great way to mismanage or lose it. Squirrels can stash, but enterprises can’t.
You need a customer data platform (CDP). A central command center that securely holds your customer data and lets you organize it according to your goals.
The thing is, what’s best for you? A CDP out-of-the-box? Building a customer data solution yourself? There’s merit in both options, and this webinar is here to help you narrow down what’s best for your business. Acquia, Bounteous, and Appnovation will show you:
How a single source for customer data storage can mitigate risk and optimize customer experience
How central data governance will help your customer data strategy once the almighty Google takes away cookies
The comprehensive CDP build-or-buy checklist + CDP must-haves for your budget
First-party data management that keeps your customers' data safe and your business booming
It’s 10 PM, do you know where your data is?"
Taking Your Multi-Site Management at Scale to the Next LevelAcquia
Creating digital experiences across a portfolio of sites can present a big challenge. It requires thinking about scale in multiple dimensions, from standardizing on a technology toolset and driving adoption of that platform across an organization, to establishing content governance and user experience standards to guide the design and build of many sites. In order to build a foundation for scale, all of these dimensions and more need to be addressed. With a strong foundation, next-level digital strategies such as multi-channel content management and personalization can be incorporated into your multi-site management.
Join digital leaders and experts from Princeton University, FFW, and Acquia, to learn from their experiences tackling multi-site management at scale. Hear about best practices drawn from the large portfolios of sites that higher-ed institutions manage, and discover Acquia’s holistic solution for multi-site management with Acquia Site Factory+, Acquia Site Studio, Widen DAM, and Acquia Personalization.
During this webinar we will explore:
A major Princeton University Web Development Services initiative to migrate 1,000 websites to Acquia
How organizing content in one system can simplify control, improve access and increase use
How coordinated distribution supports greater customer experiences and deeper engagement
How to scale and accelerate organization-wide adoption of a design system
How to improve content performance and experience through A/B testing to continually optimize users’ engagement
How to collect data on your customers to be able to define segments to offer personalized experiences
At Acquia, we know we’re stronger when we work together. That’s why we always put our partners first. Our strong partner network, combined with a diverse portfolio of solutions and a clear focus on innovation, empowers us to lead the charge in delivering more open, creative, powerful digital experiences to customers everywhere.
How to Unify Brand Experience: A Hootsuite Story Acquia
Is your brand content difficult to manage, creating bottlenecks across global workflows? Are your teams struggling with quickly finding approved files so much that they start creating their own private collections of assets?
It can get out of hand in no time and the next thing you know, your brand is compromised.
Proper brand management is crucial to keeping your organization’s digital identity unified wherever people interact with it. And the path toward brand consistency begins with a single source to store everything brand-related: a digital asset management (DAM) system.
Join us for an upcoming webinar where we'll dive into more detail on how Hootsuite achieved a sense of control over the what, who, how, and when of their brand’s digital elements.
We'll cover:
- Why digital asset management is key to brand consistency and success
- How to accelerate time to market while staying brand-compliant
- How Hootsuite created a cohesive brand experience with Acquia DAM and enhanced collaboration between global teams
Improve Code Quality and Time to Market: 100% Cloud-Based Development WorkflowAcquia
Modern web development should be seamless. Unfortunately, assembling, testing, and deploying production level code on time and with confidence is a challenge that many organizations face.
Developers and IT leaders, join this webinar to learn how Acquia’s end-to-end web platform will enable you to get your applications to market faster, improve code quality, and reduce security risk.
With Acquia’s 100% cloud-based development tools optimized specifically for Drupal, building, testing, and deploying will all take place on our platform and your feet never need to touch the ground.
We’ll cover:
- How to manage the entire developer lifecycle from our platform
- How to enable continuous testing and deployment
- Why cloud based IDEs are the future of development
- How to get started with a working app on day one
- Which tools are available and how to get the most out of them
See slides of Acquia’s Partner Bootcamp held on September 21st at 10:00 AM EST/15:00 BST/16:00 CET where we shared easy-partner plays to dramatically save you time and effort, and your clients money.
You asked, we listened watch Acquia’s Partner Bootcamp which went live on August 24th at 10:00 AM EST/15:00 BST/16:00 CET where we showed live demos of:
-Employee Experience Proof of Concept on Acquia CMS - demo of our Total Employee Experience concept & benefits.
-Upgrading from Drupal 7 Made Eas(ier) - live upgrade of a Drupal 7 site to Drupal 9 using Acquia Migrate Accelerate.
-CDP Beyond Retail - Use cases for more industries where customer is at the core
As the world emerges into a post-pandemic glow, consumer demand is rebounding. To meet this demand, Partners need to accelerate growth and scale global digital operations for their customers.
Acquia’s Q2 Program Increment is designed to help partners re-engineer the digital stack and increase services revenue. With a focus on; how to scale for new growth of content and experiences, data and insights, digital services and digital products for their customers
Learn more about:
Marketing Cloud Enhancements including the New Marketer Experience, Machine Learning Capabilities, and Global Governance and Compliance.
Drupal Cloud Enhancements including Cloud Next / China Managed Services, a new Developer Experience, and Employee Experience
Supercharge shoppable experiences everywhere with Acquia DXP
Join Acquia for a Partner Bootcamp on May 18th and learn how the DX Alliance empowers our partners to provide exceptional client services, increased services revenue, and improved customer retention.
On the day you will learn about:
Composable Commerce
Create more engaging shoppable experiences in record time with unified first-party data and composable architecture using no-code tools. Unlock the ability for anyone to deliver unique catalogue experiences, deliver lightning-fast value, uncover new needs, and increase customer loyalty.
Acquia Open DXP Pricing & Packaging
Learn how Acquia has redefined pricing & packaging across its entire portfolio with industry-first unified pricing metrics and prescriptive bundles to deliver greater value and streamline selling and client experiences.
Acquia Migrate Accelerate
Preparing your customers for their journey to Drupal 9 has never been more critical with D7 and D8 EOL approaching. Explore our automated tool for D7 to D9 migrations and other strategies to help your customers accelerate their migration timelines.
-Sneak Peak into Acquia Cloud Next
Update to our Cloud Platform that leverages the most modern and innovative AWS technology.
DRUPAL 7 END OF LIFE IS NEAR - MIGRATE TO DRUPAL 9 FAST AND EASYAcquia
As Drupal 7 is reaching EOL in November 2022, it’s time to start thinking about Drupal 9 migration. With all the planning and preparations needed to migrate, it can be overwhelming to take the leap. But don't panic. We’ve got you covered—with all the tools and concrete steps you need to make the move to Drupal 9 efficient and painless.
Acquia webinar: Leveraging Drupal to Bury Your Sales Team In B2B LeadsAcquia
CloudHealth’s story of ramping up their B2B digital experience through an upgrade to Drupal 8 is impressive - and they’re not alone. Organizations of all kinds are discovering how Drupal 8 can boost lead generation, and ensure those leads get to the sales team faster than ever before. We’d love to answer any questions you might have, and explore how Drupal can empower your own sales team.
April partner bootcamp deck cookieless futureAcquia
Google’s recent announcement to ‘phase out support for third-party tracking cookies , has been viewed by many as the final blow in the death of third-party cookies in marketing. It is also the latest wave pushing us toward stronger privacy-focused open web standards.
But what does the death of third-party cookies mean for Acquia Partners? In a nutshell, it means that you must develop a powerful first-party data strategy for your customers so they can win the trust and loyalty of theirs.
Watch our on-demand Partner Bootcamp and learn how you can stay ahead of the curve.
We explored:
Evolving from customer acquisition to consent-driven personalization
The rise of the Customer Data Platform (CDP)
Why a first-party data strategy requires data unification across the customer lifecycle
You will also hear from Mark Royko about Acquia Practice Certification program
How to enhance cx through personalised, automated solutionsAcquia
Automation of processes and optimisation of self-service are key when ensuring dialogue and direct support in moments of need. Freed up resources as a result of efficient self-service can be allocated to supporting customers in difficult situations. Equally, personalised and automated advice is proven to be extremely valuable when timely answers are needed and decisions are to be made.
Personalisation - seamless customer experience: is this possible? How do you build consumer confidence to provide data for effective personalisation?
In this webinar, Acquia will share advice and best practices on how to leverage knowledge and intelligent advice to provide instant value both for customers and employees.
- What consumers feel about personalisation (CX Survey results)
- How to understand customer intent across multiple engagement channels
- The importance of permission-based data sharing and moving beyond cookie-based data collection
- Discuss with CX experts on best practices, challenges, solutions and examples that audience can relate to
- Get advice on where to turn for support, how to quickly adopt use cases of intelligent advice, and answers to your questions
- Hear about how personalized advice and automated decisions can make a difference for your service model, your customers and employee
DRUPAL MIGRATIONS AND DRUPAL 9 INNOVATION: HOW PAC-12 DELIVERED DIGITALLY FOR...Acquia
Supporting content delivered across a multitude of channels for 20+ sports at the NCAA Division I level, Pac-12 has continuously sought to push the boundaries of what is possible with Drupal as their content management system (CMS). From Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, and from roaring crowds of fans to the new digital fanbase -- Pac-12 has continuously provided an unparalleled and cutting-edge experience and they aren’t done yet.
Join our webinar to learn about Pac-12’s digital past, present, and future including:
Pac-12’s Drupal Migrations from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and onto Drupal 9
How Pac-12 shifted to support their digital fanbase
How Pac-12 extended Drupal as their internal and external orchestration platform
A look into Pac-12’s approach to FAST (Free Ad Supported Television)
We will also hear from Pac-12’s partner, Phase2, around their best practices for executing Drupal migrations and how they worked with Pac-12 to deliver their Drupal 8 site.
In the era of the experience economy, the combination of technology, talent and touchpoints are key success factors in building sustainable relationships, optimising time to value and facilitating the dialogue between the customer and the brand.
In times of change, organisations are providing advice in challenging situations, guiding information search and facilitating important decisions for individual customers at the same time as they are adopting new ways of working in a dynamic business environment.
Acquia is collaborating with numerous companies globally around customer digital experience and we are here to support with advice, inspiration and open dialogue.
Join our Digital Customer Experience webinar series, where we focus on today’s relevant topics and discuss the role and importance of digital customer experience in an ever-changing world to:
Hear about timely topics, survey findings for Australia and Singapore in the domain of customer experience
- Get advice on where to turn for support and answers to your questions
- Discuss with CX experts on best practices, challenges and solutions
- Key trends overview - why are they relevant to your business?
- Brief on content to be covered in each subsequent webinar
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
2. G OALS F OR T ODAY
• Introduce you to AWS
• Show you how the pieces fit together
• Provide background for second half of this webinar
• Answer your AWS and cloud compuRng quesRons
3. I NTRODUCING AWS
• AWS = “Amazon Web Services”
• One of our three businesses:
– Online Retail
– Seller Business (Marketplace)
– Web Service Infrastructure Amazon Web
Services
• Pay As You Go Pricing Model Or “AWS” for short…
• Two Levels:
– Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
– Pla_orm as a Service (PaaS)
4. B UILDING THE C LOUD
• Business
• Security
• Presence
• Technical
5. B UILDING THE C LOUD ‐ B USINESS
• Amazon’s Brand Name
• Self‐serve Signup
• User Accounts
• Pay As You Go
• Credit Card Billing
6. B UILDING THE C LOUD ‐ S ECURITY
• Security is Job #1 for Us
• Designed for MulR‐Tenancy
• SAS 70 CerRficaRon
• Security White Paper
– Physical Security
– Logical Security
• Published Best PracRces
• hfp://aws.amazon.com/security
7. B UILDING THE C LOUD ‐ P RESENCE
AWS Regions:
US East (Northern Virginia)
US West (Northern California)
Europe (Dublin)
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
More to come…
AWS CloudFront LocaRons
Ashburn, VA / Dallas, TX / Los Angeles, CA / Miami, FL / Newark, NJ /
Palo Alto, CA / Seafle, WA / St. Louis, MO / Amsterdam / Dublin /
Frankfurt / London / Hong Kong / Tokyo / Singapore / New York
9. A MAZON E LASTIC C OMPUTE C LOUD
• Amazon EC2: on‐demand compute power
– Obtain and boot new server instances in minutes
– Scale capacity up or down as needed
– $0.085 per hour and up
• Key features:
– Support for Windows, Linux, and OpenSolaris
– Complete flexibility to install any open source or commercial soqware
– Supports all major web and applicaRon pla_orms
– MulRple Availability Zones
– ElasRc IP Addresses
– ElasRc Block Storage
– ElasRc Load Balancing
– Auto Scaling
– Amazon CloudWatch
10. A MAZON R ELATIONAL D ATABASE S ERVICE (RDS)
• Create a new relaRonal database with one API call
• Offload common administraRve tasks to AWS
• Use exisRng code and tools
• Scale up processing or
storage with one API call
• Recover database using
snapshot or log file
• MySQL 5.1
11. AWS P ACE OF I NNOVATION – 2010
» Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
» RDS SSL Support
with Windows, Extra Large High
» CloudWatch EBS Metrics
Memory Instances
» S3 Console Support
» Amazon S3 Versioning Feature
» Import/Export API
» Consolidated Billing for AWS
» CloudFront HTTPS Support
» Lower pricing for Outbound Data
» CloudFront POP in NY
Transfer
» Singapore Region » CloudFront Price ReducRon
» RDS in Europe » ElasRc MapReduce updates
» ELB sessions
2010
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul
» ??
» Amazon SNS
» ??
» ??
» RDS Console Support
» S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage
» AWS SoluRon Pages » RDS MulR‐AZ
» CloudFront Streaming Logs
» VPC in Europe
12. F INAL T HOUGHTS
• AWS Trends:
– ConRnuous innovaRon
– AddiRonal services
– AddiRonal features
– AddiRonal locaRons
• This is the Rme to learn and start to use the cloud!
13. G ETTING S TARTED W ITH AWS
• Create developer account at hfp://aws.amazon.com
• Download access keys, SDKs, developer tools
• Build and deploy applicaRon
• AWS Blog: hfp://aws.typepad.com