The Football Association of Ireland's Drupal & UEFA API Experience
The Football Association of Ireland (FAI.ie) embarked on a journey to create a new online experience for Irish football fans. With Drupal the framework of choice, the challenges ranged from how best to meet the needs of all stakeholders in the football family, to how to create a rich multimedia and responsive experience for users. Match statistics were crucial to the project; the key technical and architectural hurdle was how best to integrate with UEFA's complex API's to deliver real time coverage of games in a Live Match Centre.
The session will be presented by Daniel Walsh, Project Delivery Manager and Solution Architect at Monsoon Consulting - one of the leading Drupal Agencies in Dublin. Daniel will talk about the technical challenges the project posed and how they were overcome to deliver a best in class solution and integration with UEFA dynamic match content APIs.
• Project Discovery, including stakeholders interviews, interactive wireframes
• Technical review of UEFA Fame API Documentation and Data Feeds
• Information architecture to deliver on the user journeys cutting back significantly on the existing one
• Mashup of Local and UEFA Remote content: Hybrid Integration - Remote Rendering
• Drupal calls the relevant UEFA feed with authentication token and receives XML result
The session is addressed to:
• Drupal Solution Architects & Drupal Developers
• Agencies looking to understand best practices in implementing Enterprise level Drupal websites
About the presenters
Daniel plays a dual role as a Solution Architect and Project Delivery Manager at Monsoon Consulting. A former Senior Drupal Developer, engages with the clients conducting business analysis, building project requirements, estimating the project tasks and then creating a System Solution Architectures and technical implementation plans. He also acts as Product Owner or Scrum Master in our agile project delivery methodology, and has spoken at different events & meetups in Ireland.