Drupal is a great tool, but sometimes it's overloaded with a burden of task that could be done in a more performant/scalable way out of it.

1. #thinkob
Think!
out of the box
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2. P A R E N T A L
OPINIONATED*
*DYOR, your mileage may vary
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3. Pedro González Serrano
(aka NITEMAN)
Performance and process consultant
Sysadmin
+16 years working with Drupal
@NITEMAN_es
http://niteman.es
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4. Ladies and
gentlemen...
I guess that takes in
most of you
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5. Think of Sustainability:
- Maintainability
- Scalability
- Performance
- Cost efficiency
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6. Law of the instrument
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat
everything as if it were a nail
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7. “Batteries Included”
may be sometimes suitable:
- accesslog (statistics)
- watchdog (dblog)
- search (core)
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8. Drupal bias:
There is a module for that
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9. With a little help of my friends
(Varnish, Solr, Redis)
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10. Think of Sustainability:
- Maintainability
- Scalability
- Performance
- Cost efficiency
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11. Automatic thinking:
PROS & CONS
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12. Reinventing wheel:
PROS & CONS
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13. Would you ever:
- Build a process manager in drupal?
- Build a PHP Drush based Daemon?
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14. Then remember to add
“Bad judgement”
module as dependency
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15. #thinkob
Something being feasible
doesn't makes it
automatically appropriate

16. Some of my mistakes:
- crop
- AMQP-Drush daemon
- underestimate HA drawbacks
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17. Think of Sustainability:
- Maintainability
- Scalability
- Performance
- Cost efficiency
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18. Get out
off the box
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19. Just In Time Engineering
WARNING:
A good enough temporary hack tends to become a permanent architecture solution
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20. Avoid madness:
- Favour Boring Technology
- There may be a SaaS for it
- Keep async
- Apply 12 factor
- Consider domain-centric architectures
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21. We do it our way
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22. 1. Due Diligence
on the ground assessment
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23. Lifecycle processes:
Asset building (build/deploy)
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24. settings.php / .env (ENVs)
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25. Caches
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26. External services:
Timeouts
Errors
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27. Process coupling / synchrony
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28. Tests + Benchmarks
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29. 2. Agnostic solutions
for common needs
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30. Logging + Monitoring + Analysis
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31. Mail gateways
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32. Edge computing (redirections,auth&more)
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33. 3. Common patterns
for new needs
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34. Proxy
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35. Sidecar
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36. Producer / Consumer
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37. Key takeaways:
- Think!
- Drupal does it great to some extent
- Sustainability matters
- Every decision brings present & future
costs
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38. Questions?
(Related or not)
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39. So long and
thanks
for all the fish!
http://bit.ly/NITEMAN-thinkob
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40. Image attribution
[Cathedral]: @NITEMAN_es
[Groucho]: https://flic.kr/p/5Ky9Xq
[Hammer]: https://flic.kr/p/HuhxaK
[Nails]: https://flic.kr/p/aECgxZ
[TetrixPieces]: https://flic.kr/p/9m7GRV
[HamerGirl]: https://flic.kr/p/5LDK7H
[Hammer-Orange]: https://flic.kr/p/5Cvgnk
[Initiation-Well]: @NITEMAN_es
[Broken concrete]: https://flic.kr/p/6Du7DL
[Bridge]: @NITEMAN_es
[Pipes]: https://flic.kr/p/om9AMU
[Bricks]: https://flic.kr/p/eCRcXY
[Sunset]: @NITEMAN_es
[Old and cool]: https://flic.kr/p/WAPBmS
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