Think! (out of the box)

Drupal is a great tool, but sometimes it's overloaded with a burden of task that could be done in a more performant/scalable way out of it.

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1. #thinkob Think! out of the box http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/es/
2. P A R E N T A L OPINIONATED* *DYOR, your mileage may vary #thinkob
3. Pedro González Serrano (aka NITEMAN) Performance and process consultant Sysadmin +16 years working with Drupal @NITEMAN_es http://niteman.es #thinkob
4. Ladies and gentlemen... I guess that takes in most of you #thinkob
5. Think of Sustainability: - Maintainability - Scalability - Performance - Cost efficiency #thinkob
6. Law of the instrument If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail #thinkob
7. “Batteries Included” may be sometimes suitable: - accesslog (statistics) - watchdog (dblog) - search (core) #thinkob
8. Drupal bias: There is a module for that #thinkob
9. With a little help of my friends (Varnish, Solr, Redis) #thinkob
10. Think of Sustainability: - Maintainability - Scalability - Performance - Cost efficiency #thinkob
11. Automatic thinking: PROS & CONS #thinkob
12. Reinventing wheel: PROS & CONS #thinkob
13. Would you ever: - Build a process manager in drupal? - Build a PHP Drush based Daemon? #thinkob
14. Then remember to add “Bad judgement” module as dependency #thinkob
15. #thinkob Something being feasible doesn't makes it automatically appropriate
16. Some of my mistakes: - crop - AMQP-Drush daemon - underestimate HA drawbacks #thinkob
17. Think of Sustainability: - Maintainability - Scalability - Performance - Cost efficiency #thinkob
18. Get out off the box #thinkob
19. Just In Time Engineering WARNING: A good enough temporary hack tends to become a permanent architecture solution #thinkob
20. Avoid madness: - Favour Boring Technology - There may be a SaaS for it - Keep async - Apply 12 factor - Consider domain-centric architectures #thinkob
21. We do it our way #thinkob
22. 1. Due Diligence on the ground assessment #thinkob
23. Lifecycle processes: Asset building (build/deploy) #thinkob
24. settings.php / .env (ENVs) #thinkob
25. Caches #thinkob
26. External services: Timeouts Errors #thinkob
27. Process coupling / synchrony #thinkob
28. Tests + Benchmarks #thinkob
29. 2. Agnostic solutions for common needs #thinkob
30. Logging + Monitoring + Analysis #thinkob
31. Mail gateways #thinkob
32. Edge computing (redirections,auth&more) #thinkob
33. 3. Common patterns for new needs #thinkob
34. Proxy #thinkob
35. Sidecar #thinkob
36. Producer / Consumer #thinkob
37. Key takeaways: - Think! - Drupal does it great to some extent - Sustainability matters - Every decision brings present & future costs #thinkob
38. Questions? (Related or not) #thinkob
39. So long and thanks for all the fish! http://bit.ly/NITEMAN-thinkob #thinkob
40. Image attribution [Cathedral]: @NITEMAN_es [Groucho]: https://flic.kr/p/5Ky9Xq [Hammer]: https://flic.kr/p/HuhxaK [Nails]: https://flic.kr/p/aECgxZ [TetrixPieces]: https://flic.kr/p/9m7GRV [HamerGirl]: https://flic.kr/p/5LDK7H [Hammer-Orange]: https://flic.kr/p/5Cvgnk [Initiation-Well]: @NITEMAN_es [Broken concrete]: https://flic.kr/p/6Du7DL [Bridge]: @NITEMAN_es [Pipes]: https://flic.kr/p/om9AMU [Bricks]: https://flic.kr/p/eCRcXY [Sunset]: @NITEMAN_es [Old and cool]: https://flic.kr/p/WAPBmS #thinkob