Journey of Drupal Development - The only thing constant is change

Introduction

Any project engagement starts with initial requirement laid as project plan. During the development phase, the approach changes and it is always advisable to revisit and rethink about the implementation. This session empowers a project team to start thinking about the solution instead of solving the problem.

Topic

This session will cover

1. Introduction to features for deploying the building blocks of a site
2. Introduction to planning custom modules.
3. Using Drupal as framework.
4. How to debug custom code.
5. How to do profiling.

Tools, Frameworks and modules used.

1. Drupal
2. Features
3. Entity
4. Deciding cache strategy.
5. Startegy for anonymous and authenticated traffic.
6. configuring Xdebug
7. Vagrant

Session format

This session will start with presentation followed by live demo.

At the end of this session audience will be able to plan strategy towards implementing scalable solution.