This document discusses how to build a startup using Drupal. It describes using Drupal for the backend and API, with AngularJS for the dashboard. Microservices are implemented using additional Drupal modules to handle tasks like cache clearing and backend operations. The architecture uses services like API, Comet, and Gate to communicate between components. Building the startup in this way allows for high prototyping speed with Drupal while leveraging technologies like Node.js, Docker, and microservices for additional capabilities and scalability.

1. How we build a startup with Drupal
Pavel Prischepa

2. Pavel Prischepa
6 years in Drupal
Developer > Team Lead > CTO
CTO & Co-founder at Wodby
pp@wodby.com

3. What is Wodby?
Wodby
Your server
Your code

4. Application page

5. Design architecture

6. Based on Drupal
+ High speed of prototyping, development (relatively
to our team)
- Not enough speed in Full bootstrap
- A lot of Database queries
- No native “non-blocking I/O” integration

7. Architecture
API
(Drupal module Endpoint)
Back-end (Drupal)
wodby.com
(User register, login,
password reset)
Dashboard
(AngularJS)

8. Architecture
API
(Drupal module Endpoint)
Back-end (Drupal)
Dashboard
(AngularJS)
Comet
(Drupal module NodeJS)
wodby.com
(User register, login,
password reset)

9. Architecture
API
(Drupal module Endpoint)
Dashboard
(AngularJS)
Back-end (Drupal)
Comet
(Drupal module NodeJS)
Microservices
(Drupal module Microservices)
wodby.com
(User register, login,
password reset)

10. Microservices
The heart of Wodby backend

11. Microservices
...API App CronBackup
MySQL Redis

12. Microservices
...API App CronBackup
MySQL Redis
Actions, Results, Events

13. Microservices pros and cons
+ Strong Module Boundaries
+ Independent Deployment
+ Technology Diversity
- Distribution
- Eventual Consistency
- Operational Complexity

14. Microservices in action

16. Clear App
cache
API
App Gate

17. API
App
Gate
call app.cache_clear()

18. API App
Gate
call gate.exec(“drush cc all”)

19. API App Gate
WebSocket
Client server

20. API App Gate
WebSocket
Client server

21. Gate
Wodby
Agent
Client server
WebSocket
Docker containers

22. Gate
Wodby
Agent
Client server
WebSocket
Nginx
Docker containers

24. Task is a bunch of actions

25. Task
Step 1
Step 2
Done

26. Task
Step 1
Step 2
Done
Task
Step 1
Step 2
Failed

27. Task
Step 1
Step 2
Done
Task
Step 1
Step 2
Task
Step 1
Step 2
DoneFailed

28. More complex task

29. Task
Step 1
Step 2
Done

30. Task
Step 1
Step 2
Done
Step 1.1
Step 1.2
Done

31. Task
Step 1
Step 2
Done
Step 1.1
Step 1.2
Step 1.1.1
Done
Step
1.1.2
Step
1.1.3
Done
Step
1.1.4

32. Hints
● Use reliable and flexible tools
● Keep Database query simple
● Use Redis
● Cache by tags
● Slack is “all you need” (monitoring, notifications, logs, ….)
● Integrate continuously, if you can...

33. Links
Articles:
● Microservices Resource Guide by Martin Fowler
Drupal modules:
● Microservices framework
● Endpoint - really fast API framework

34. Pavel Prischepa
Золотой спонсор:
It’s time to build startups
with Drupal!
При поддержке: Серебряный спонсор:
pp@wodby.com
@pavel_prischepa