Building NBA.com on Drupal 8

Turner and the NBA reimagined and relaunched their entire digital presence in under  a year, bringing their new concept to the web, mobile, apps and connected devices in time for the 2016-2017 season. On the backend, D8 is both ingesting data and driving content, feeding those platforms, and driving the web and mobile experience. A panel of the architects and developers will discuss the project, including the technologies used (D8, Angular2, Elasticsearch) and the challenges they faced.

• Not-quite-headless D8

• Drupal 8 DevOps in AWS

• Feeds for stats and other data

• Live events and live scoring systems

• Angular2 on the bleeding edge

• Integration with various external data and content systems

• Media importing and media asset management

• Quick tips and tricks on how to architect a site this intricate and complex

• Q&A

This session is for:

• Developers on large projects

• Site architects looking to see how others approach large projects

It will cover:

• An overview of NBA.com and why Drupal 8 was chosen

• How Drupal 8 interacts with other systems and stack components

• A high-level overview of what was used to build the site and why they were chosen (Paragraphs module, Angular 2, etc)

Attendees will learn:

• What worked (and what to avoid)

• Tips and tricks on architecting a complex site build