The Drupal Ecosystem for Drupal Services

THE DRUPAL ECOSYSTEM
FOR DRUPAL SERVICES
How to Productize your Drupal services

Drupal Camp Dubai | November 30 2013
www.vardot.com
Tuesday, 03, December 2013

Mohammed J. Razem
CEO & Founder at Vardot
m.razem@vardot.com
@moerazem
d.o/user/255384


In Context

Web Products &
Web Services


Products vs. Services
Products

Services

• Develop once, sell

• Need a new “project”

• Maintain one system

• Maintain multiple

• Focused teams - can

• Harder to get same

multiple

run Agile easily


every time
“projects”

quality; multiple
teams

Productizing Services


What do we want to
achieve?

• Reduce “Total Cost of Ownership” for
the customer

• Reduce “Operational Costs” for the
vendor

• Provide higher quality standards

In Context

Drupal Project’s Most
Time Consuming
Phases

Drupal Project Life Span


1

Site Building, Development & Theming


1
2

Launch, and After-launch Monitoring


1
2


How to use Drupal effectively in each phase
to productize?


1



1


• Invest in “Installation Proﬁles” for each
Vertical - a.k.a “Distributions”


1



• Have a “Features Server”


1



• Use “Drush”


1



• Use “Drush”
• Use a streamlined development

environment - such as “Acquia Cloud”


1



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Build and conﬁgure your own Go Kit


1



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Build once, for each vertical, use to many!


1



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No need to reconﬁgure Drupal every time
you have a new project


1



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Packaged and maintained through
drupal.org

No need to reconﬁgure Drupal every time
you have a new project


1



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Examples:


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Examples:

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Drupal Commons


1



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Examples:

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Drupal Commons
Open Scholar


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Examples:

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Drupal Commons
Open Scholar
Open Public


1



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Examples:

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Drupal Commons
Open Scholar
Open Public
Varbase - saved 32 hours
for each project


1



• Use “Drush”
• Use “Acquia Cloud” for stream-lined
development


1




1


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Package multiple functions that can be
used on multiple sites


1


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Do it once, use for many


1


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Can be versioned


1


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Can be versioned
More like Apps


1


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Can be versioned
More like Apps
Easier deployment; Saves development
time!!


1


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Examples:


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Examples:

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News section


1


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Examples:

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News section
Promotion slider


1


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Examples:

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News section
Promotion slider
Microsite builder


1


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Examples:

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News section
Promotion slider
Microsite builder

• http://features.drupal.vardot.com saved hundreds of hours


1


• Use “Drush”


1


• Use “Drush”
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Swiss knife of Drupal


1


• Use “Drush”
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Speeds up development by 4x


1


• Use “Drush”
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Managing multiple environment from one
place


1


• Use “Drush”
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Easy Drupal updates - with backups

Managing multiple environment from one
place


1





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Multi-Drupal environments for development
and production


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and production

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Enforces streamlined standard development


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and production

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Installation Proﬁles and Drush integration


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and production

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Installation Proﬁles and Drush integration
Has an API to extend, and build your own
workﬂow



2



2


• Almost 100 items to check before launch


2


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SEO


2


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SEO
Performance


2


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SEO
Performance
Security


2


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SEO
Performance
Security
Best practices


2


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SEO
Performance
Security
Best practices
Accessibility


2


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SEO
Performance
Security
Best practices
Accessibility
Theme and design


2


• Create your own
“Checklist”

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Requires manual check

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Very customized

Can not be used for
monitoring


2


• Use “Production Check”
module

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Digitalize your checklist

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Periodically check and keep
on monitoring your site

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Keep your website updated

Customizable and hookable
One click validation before
launch


2


• Use “Production Check”
module

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One dashboard for
all sites

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Host on our own
“monitor” server

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Integrates with Nagios
for instant alerts via
email, SMS, Twitter DM


2


• Use “Acquia Insight”
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Monitors over 80 conf,
performance and security
settings

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Provides overall score for
performance, SEO,
security and best-practices


Bottom line...
Use & invest in the right tools
(Features, Installation Proﬁles,
Production Monitor, Streamlined Dev
Environment)
It will save everybody’s time and money


Thank You!
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