Think! (out of the box)

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#thinkob Think! out of the box http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/es/

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P A R E N T A L OPINIONATED* *DYOR, your mileage may vary #thinkob

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Pedro González Serrano (aka NITEMAN) Performance and process consultant Sysadmin +16 years working with Drupal @NITEMAN_es http://niteman.es #thinkob

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Ladies and gentlemen... I guess that takes in most of you #thinkob

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Think of Sustainability: - Maintainability - Scalability - Performance - Cost efficiency #thinkob

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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

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“Batteries Included” may be sometimes suitable: - accesslog (statistics) - watchdog (dblog) - search (core) #thinkob

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Drupal bias: There is a module for that #thinkob

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With a little help of my friends (Varnish, Solr, Redis) #thinkob

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Think of Sustainability: - Maintainability - Scalability - Performance - Cost efficiency #thinkob

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Automatic thinking: PROS & CONS #thinkob

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Reinventing wheel: PROS & CONS #thinkob

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Would you ever: - Build a process manager in drupal? - Build a PHP Drush based Daemon? #thinkob

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Then remember to add “Bad judgement” module as dependency #thinkob

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#thinkob Something being feasible doesn't makes it automatically appropriate

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Some of my mistakes: - crop - AMQP-Drush daemon - underestimate HA drawbacks #thinkob

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Think of Sustainability: - Maintainability - Scalability - Performance - Cost efficiency #thinkob

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Get out off the box #thinkob

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Just In Time Engineering WARNING: A good enough temporary hack tends to become a permanent architecture solution #thinkob

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Avoid madness: - Favour Boring Technology - There may be a SaaS for it - Keep async - Apply 12 factor - Consider domain-centric architectures #thinkob

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We do it our way #thinkob

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1. Due Diligence on the ground assessment #thinkob

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Lifecycle processes: Asset building (build/deploy) #thinkob

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settings.php / .env (ENVs) #thinkob

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Caches #thinkob

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External services: Timeouts Errors #thinkob

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Process coupling / synchrony #thinkob

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Tests + Benchmarks #thinkob

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2. Agnostic solutions for common needs #thinkob

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Logging + Monitoring + Analysis #thinkob

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Mail gateways #thinkob

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Edge computing (redirections,auth&more) #thinkob

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3. Common patterns for new needs #thinkob

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Proxy #thinkob

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Sidecar #thinkob

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Producer / Consumer #thinkob

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Key takeaways: - Think! - Drupal does it great to some extent - Sustainability matters - Every decision brings present & future costs #thinkob

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Questions? (Related or not) #thinkob

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So long and thanks for all the fish! http://bit.ly/NITEMAN-thinkob #thinkob

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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