API-First Initiative Update (DrupalCon Baltimore)
As part of working in Acquia’s Office of the CTO, I’ve been working on the API-First Initiative for the past year. Where are we at?
Drupal 8.3: BigPipe experimental → stable!
Almost a year ago, BigPipe was the first experimental module added to Drupal 8.
Backwards Compatibility: Burden & Benefit
In my job at Acquia, I’ve been working almost exclusively on Drupal 8 core. In 2012–2013 I worked on authoring experience (in-place editing, CKEditor, and more).
BigPipe
Did you know that often the majority of the time spent generating a HTML page is spent on a few dynamic/uncacheable/personalized parts?
Drupal 8.1: BigPipe as an experimental module
Today, Drupal 8.1 has been released and it includes BigPipe as an experimental module.
A RESTless week
I spent about a week of my time at Acquia on improving Drupal 8’s REST support. That time was spent fixing, reviewing, triaging and documenting.
BigPipe webinar
This talk covers everything in BigPipe (the webinar I did a few weeks ago was only an introdu
BigPipe introduction webinar
Acquia frequently does webinars and given my work on BigPipe, I was asked to present with Fabien Potencier (of
Drupal 8: BigPipe module ready
I’m happy to announce that Fabian Franz and I managed to get a first release of BigPipe published today, coinciding with the
Drupal 8 release day: docs polished & ready!
Later today, Drupal 8 will be released! At this time, good docs are of course crucial.
Drupal 8's Dynamic Page Cache
Drupal 8 now has a Dynamic Page Cache. The Page Cache module only works for anonymous users, the Dynamic Page Cache module takes that a step further: it works for any user.
Making Drupal fly — The fastest Drupal ever is here!
Together with Fabian Franz from Tag1 Consulting, I had a session about Big Pipe in Drupal 8, as well as related performance/cacheability improvements.
Caching at the Edge: CDNs for everyone
Drupal 8 has comprehensive knowledge about the cacheability of the things it renders. This opens new doors.
Making Drupal fly — The fastest Drupal ever is near!
Update September 24, 2015: the fastest Drupal ever is no longer near, it is here!
The Montpellier Perf Sprint, and what’s next
At least 20 people helped push one or more issues forward in Montpellier, at the Drupal Dev Days Performance Sprint!
Drupal 8 now has page caching enabled by default
After more than a year and probably hundreds of patches, yesterday it finally happened!
Drupal 8's render pipeline
In Drupal 8, we’ve significantly improved the way pages are rendered. This talk explains the entire render pipeline, in some detail. But it also covers:
Render caching in Drupal 7 and 8
Together with Fabian Franz & Marco Molinari from Tag1 Consulting, I had a session about render caching in Drupal 7 and 8 at DrupalCon Amsterdam.
Drupal 8: perf & ops — cache tags & pluggable asset optimization
For this short talk, I chose two particular improvements in Drupal 8 that will make a big difference for future Drupal sites’ performance and ops (infrastructure requirements).
CKEditor in Drupal 8: site builders & developers Q&A's
We had two CKEditor Q&A BoFs at DrupalCon Prague: one for site builders, one for developers.
Drupal 8: best authoring experience for structured content?
Drupal 8 will ship with big authoring experience improvements: WYSIWYG editing & in-place editing, thanks to the
Drupal Speaks — Aural UIs & new accessibility features
At DrupalCon Portland, I presented together with fellow Acquia Spark team member Jesse Beach on the accessibility improvements
CDN webinar
Acquia frequently does Drupal-related webinars and given my background with CDN integration, I was asked to present
Aloha – Drupal/Spark sprint report
We had already let you know that we would be using Aloha Editor as the WY
Spark update: WYSIWYG choice
A few weeks ago, we showed the in-line editing prototype we had built for Spark, which has now blossomed into