ask us anything: dries buytaert and team tell all on drupal 8
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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 [email protected]
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)