ask us anything: dries buytaert and team tell all on drupal 8

Ask Us Anything: Dries Buytaert and Team Tell All on Drupal 8

Dries BuytaertDrupal Founder and Drupal Project LeadCo-Founder and CTO, Acquia

Angie “Webchick” ByronDirector of Community Development, Acquia

Alex BronsteinPrincipal Engineer, Acquia

Wim LeersSenior Engineer, Acquia

Our Drupal 8 Experts

Dries BuytaertDrupal Founder and Project LeadCo-Founder and CTO of Acquia

Angie “Webchick” Byron Director of Community Development at

Acquia

Alex BronsteinPrincipal Engineer at Acquia

Wim LeersSenior Engineer at Acquia

Drupal 8 (D8) is a digital experience platform for managing content and

experiences across channels and devices, to support a new era of personalized,

multichannel engagement.

Drupal 8 released on November 19

Drupal 8’s reach: 1 night, 240 parties

Drupal 8 by the numbers→ New architecture→ 200+ new features → More capabilities in Drupal

core→ 1.5M lines of code → 3,000+ global contributors

More than 100 Acquia employees contributed to D8 No other organization in the world has more Drupal experts and core contributors.

D8 is the DXP the world has been waiting forThe world is moving from this...

...to this

Websites & web content Multichannel, digital experiences

Browser-based Any browser, screen, device, application

Everyone sees the same content Personal, contextual experiences

“Pull” content (browse, read) “Push” content for real-time interaction

Back-end tied to front-end delivery Decoupled architecture for flexible delivery

Who’s Using D8 + Acquia?

CH2M (Fortune 500) $6B global engineering firm on D8 & Acquia Platform

Manhattan Associates supply-chain software leader on D8 & Acquia Platform

What’s New in D8? A lot.Here are some highlights...

→ Fast and fun content authoring▪D8 reimagines content authoring usability. ▪WYSIWYG & in-place editing for fast, easy authoring

→ Mobile first, mobile everywhere▪Entire D8 interface is responsive. Edit/approve on any device▪Previews to see content-in-context on mobile devices

→ Multi-lingual focus▪D8 has extensive support for multilingual content & translations▪D8 interface is translated into more than 100 languages

→More available out of the box▪Views, improved blocks, more field types

For Users and Site Builders

→ Configuration management▪Drupal is well-known for its deep configurability. With D8, all of that configuration

can be managed in git (or other vcs), and deployed across site environments (dev, stage, prod).

▪Built-in dependency management and language translation. API support for contrib to add other popular capabilities (Features, Domain, ...) that were hard in prior versions.

→ OOP & Entity API & Plugin API▪Many disparate APIs unified: "learn once, apply anywhere"▪Built-in REST module. API support for contrib alternatives (Services, RESTWS,

GraphQL).

→ Performance & Caching▪D8 more easily handles highly dynamic websites thanks to cache dependency

tracking▪This “cacheability metadata” enables much smarter caching (BigPipe, ESI…)

For Developers

Drupal 8 Open Q&APlease submit your questions at any time throughout the webinar in the Q&A box.

We will answer on a first come, first serve basis. We will start with pre-submitted questions.

If you have any additional questions, please email marketing@acquia.com

Extra slides below; hold these here

New in Drupal 8 → New architecture makes it easier to develop & extend capabilities → Modern PHP standards opens up adoption to more developers→ Dynamic content caching enables faster personalized experiences → ‘Big Pipe’ capability gives every Drupal site Facebook-like fast page

loading→ Pervasive APIs allow organizations to harness the API economy → Responsive experience for authors & visitors delivers multi-channel

consistency → Supports decoupled content delivery model enabling JS front-end

development

Fast. Fun. Beautiful. Authoring in D8

Re-imagined content authoring experience→ In-line, in-context

editing on page→ WYSIWYG tools→ Focus on usability

for everyone in D8

D8 is 100% Responsive100% Mobile-first CMS for a post-browser world → D8’s user interface is

100% responsive (front-end and back-end)

→ Manage and approve content using any device

Content as a Service in D8Content delivery for any channel or screen. → RESTful web service APIs

in D8 core for content flexibility

→ Deliver content as a service to any site, application, channel, device.

→ Pull content into D8 sites and applications from any source

D8 is a Developer’s DreamD8 makes life easier for Drupal front-end and back-end devs→ Symfony2 framework for

easier PHP development → Twig theming engine built

into D8 streamlines theming

→ D8 ships with modern front-end libraries

→ Easier configuration management & unit testing

Translation and Localization in D8Built from the ground up to support multilingual sites→ Built-in tools

streamline translation & localization process for global content

→ D8’s UI is translated into many languages (more on the way)