Engineering Engagement: How We Built EventStreamLive in Drupal 8

How do you engineer engagement at large scale events, and give ownership over content? You create a tool that does just that. EventStreamLive loads social media interactions and displays it as a content managed stream at any live event. 

In this session we’ll be looking at how we used Drupal 8 to build EventStreamLive and turn it into a viable product. We’ll look at the architecture of the system and how we made it as robust and scalable as possible. We’ll also show where we went wrong, the lessons we learned along the way and what the future holds for the tool.

About Me:

I Graduated from Aberystwyth University in 2003 with an MSc in Computer Science,
I’m now Technical Lead at Access. I help to run the North West Drupal User Group (NWDUG), who meet every first Wednesday of the month in MadLab, Manchester, UK. 

You can read about Drupal, PHP, JavaScript and Python on my website - www.hashbangcode.com. I’m an active member of PHPNW and created the Vlad project (https://github.com/hashbangcode/vlad).

In my spare time I give back to the web community. I’m the founder and administrator of #! Code, I write plugins for CMSs like Wordpress and Drupal and I contribute to local programming events.