Building Open Drupal Platforms - BADCamp 2014

DoSomething.org completely rebuilt its core software product starting by scuttling the old, bloated, overly-complex codebase to achieve the following

Reduced size and complexity of the codebase
A clean, self-building platform
Maintainable code quality at scale
This session will cover how the new DoSomething.org was conceived and built to be a scalable, open platform leveraging modern development and deployment practices like installation profiles, build scripts, Jenkins, Capistrano and Hubot.

Transcript

1. @dasmorgan Building Open Platforms LET’S DO SOMETHING ABOUT
2. @dasmorgan In the beginning…! !
3. @dasmorgan Big old slow Drupal site Frustration all around Lots of technical debt
4. @dasmorgan Starting from Scratch
5. @dasmorgan INSTALL PROFILE +! BUILD SCRIPT FTW! github.com/DoSomething/dosomething
6. @dasmorgan REDUCED TECHNICAL DEBT
7. @dasmorgan MAKE IT SCALE
8. @dasmorgan To Production
9. @dasmorgan DEVELOPMENT
10. @dasmorgan Vagrantfile! ▪ Fetches provisioned box from Vagrant Cloud! ▪ Salt controls provisioning
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12. @dasmorgan DEPLOYMENT!
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14. @dasmorgan @george is listening
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16. @dasmorgan TEST IT!
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18. @dasmorgan Deployment first! ▪ Develop with deployment in mind! ! Automate wherever possible! ▪ Chat ops (Hubot)! ▪ Jenkins/Wercker/CI Tools! ▪ Build scripts! ! Reduce friction to production! ▪ Github for pull requests! ▪ Test your code
19. @dasmorgan mrich@dosomething.org @dasmorgan QUESTIONS?! Contact me! blisteringherb