drupal as a winning web platform
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Drupal as the Winning Web Platform
Josh Koenigdrupal.org/user/[email protected]@outlandishjosh
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In the year 2003...
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My revolution didn’t work, but it helped Drupal take off...
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Contrary to rumors, the web is not dead.
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The Web
Content
News
UGC
Commerce
SMB Websites
Video
Communities
Services
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The Web
Services Content
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The web ain’t dead, but content remains an
unsolved problem
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CMS: Industry of Niches
Free
$1K
$10K
$1M
$100K
PersonalPublishing EnterpriseE-commerce SMB
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ly C
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Point SolutionsBlog Intranet Commerce
ServiceWordpress Ecosystem
Microsoft Ecosystem
Shopify Ecosystem
Who Develops Software? Open Source Microsoft Shopify
Core Content Technology
Hosting + Infrastructure SaaS or LAMP IIS Hosting SaaS
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No Core = Lots of GlueBlog Intranet Commerce
ServiceWordpress Ecosystem
Microsoft Ecosystem
Shopify Ecosystem
Who Develops Software? Open Source Microsoft Shopify
Core Content Technology
Hosting + Infrastructure SaaS or LAMP IIS Hosting SaaS
????
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It’s the Year 2011(The web is more than 15 years old)
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What if you need blogging and ecommerce?
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Why is this still a problem?
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Newspapers shouldn’t build printing presses.
• Software expertise required
• Costly to build
• Even costlier to maintain
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The web needs to keep evolving...
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2003 2004 2005
700+ core developers
700,000+ Drupal.org members
Competitive across the grid
2010
Plotted: Drupal Community Members
2006
2007
Photo: Drupal Con Copenhagen
2008
2009
is not a point solution.
Drupal is core content technology
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Platform Flexibility
Out-of-box Functionality
Wordpress
Drupal
Joomla
Django
Ruby on Rails
Plone
Sharepoint
CakePHP
Drupal’s Destiny
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The #smallcore debate is looking at it backwards.
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Drupal is both product and framework.
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It’s the first globally viable platform for the web.
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Drupal Ecosystem
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M$ saw everyone with a computer.
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Drupal sees everyone with a website.
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SolutionsIntranet Blog Commerce
Services
Development
Core Content Technology
“A Globally Viable Platform for the Web”
Open Source
Drupal Ecosystem
Drupal Distros
Shared Core Content Technology:
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We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
Image credit: Craig Chelius
But Are We Across The Chasm?
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Heroic Infrastructure
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Current Drupal Production
Customers
Am I doing Drupal right?
Does it scale?
Who keeps site updated?
Best Practices baked in
Scalable out of the box
Automatic Code Updates
Site Developers
Who carries the pager?
How do I deploy code?
How do I test changes?
Pantheon carries pager
Clean safe git workflow
Automatic code testing
Design + BuildHosting
Customer Website
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Mind the Gap!
Design + BuildPlatform
CustomersCustomersAm I doing Drupal right?
Does it scale?
Who keeps site updated?
Site Developers
Who carries the pager?
How do I deploy code?
How do I test changes?
Customer Website
??????
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Pantheon Speeds the Plow
Customers
Best practices baked in
Scalable out of the box
Automated code updates
Site Developers
Pantheon carries pager
Clean safe git workflow
Automatic code testing
PlatformDesign + Build
Customer Website
More sites, built better, for a wider audience, in
less time.
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make the robots to the #@&%’ng work
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The Runtime Is Evolving
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Not Just Corporations
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Platforms Beget Services
• Mollom
• GVS Security Scan
• NodeSquirrel Backups
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Distributions? “Drupal Apps”
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hook_world_alter()
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"State of the Drupal" from Paris '09
Credit: Dries Buytaert
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Niches for Drupal to Flourish
Free
$1K
$10K
$1M
$100K
PersonalPublishing EnterpriseE-commerce SMB
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ly C
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