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?
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).
Ode to OpenTracker
This is an ode to Dirk Engling’s OpenTracker.
A career thanks to open source
Hasselt University Professor Frank Neven asked me to come and talk a bit about my experience in open source, and how it helped me.
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.
Performance Calendar 2015: "2013 is calling: are CMSes fast by default yet?"
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like the last few years.
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.
Eaton & Urbina: structured, intelligent and adaptive content
While walking, I started listening to Jeff Eaton’s Insert Content Here podcast, episode 25:
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!
renderviz: tool visualizing Drupal 8's render tree
I’m working on making Drupal 8 faster as part of my job at Acquia.
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.
Performance Calendar 2013: "The real challenge: making the entire web fast"
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like the last few years.
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).
Building really fast websites with Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is going to have better front-end performance for anonymous users out of the box: it is now smart enough to no longer load unnecessary JavaScript.
mr-drupal: simpler Drupal code updating & deployment
This article proposes a novel, simpler way of managing Drupal sites (where “managing” in this case is solely code updating & deployment).
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