Decoupled Drupal PRESENTED BY Rohil Mistry 

Agenda ● What is Decoupled Drupal? ● Decoupled Architecture ● Advantages of Decoupled ● Challenges of Decoupled ● Traditional or Decoupled: How to decide? ● Decoupled Multi-site example with Architecture 2 

What is Decoupled Drupal? ● Decoupled or Headless Drupal is nothing but a separation of the Backend and Frontend where Drupal will act as a Content repository that stores and manages data just like a traditional Drupal Installation. ● Content will be served to the Front end via APIs. 3 

Decoupled Architecture 4 Source: https://www.acquia.com/blog/headless-drupal 

Advantages of Decoupled ● Reusable capabilities of the Content ● Significant Performance Improvement ● Reduced cost of redesigns ● Supports multiple consumer ● Expedited Development 5 

Challenges of Decoupled ● Higher Development Cost ● Technical Complexity ● Multi-site Difficulty ● Content Model Lock-in ● Less page control 6 

Decouple or Traditional: How to decide? 7 Source: https://dri.es/how-to-decouple-drupal-in-2019 

Decoupled Drupal Example ● Let’s assume requirement is to build architecture/infrastructure for Multi-site Decoupled Drupal. ● What would be your generic architecture? 8 

Decoupled Drupal Architecture 9 Visitor CloudFront CDN S3 Bucket with Front End App + Static Assets API Gateway Lambda function – Proxy API Decoupled Drupal Acquia Servers Image Assets Editor 

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