Changing the engines on the plane while still in flight: Dealing with growing pains on your Drupal platform

jhibbets
McRick

Your site traffic is exploding! Readers are coming back for more and your writer pool is expanding. The one thing you need to keep this momentum going is for your Drupal platform to keep up. But can it? Two growing community websites answered that question: Opensource.com and Enterpriserproject.com.

Learn how a partnership between Red Hat and BlueSpark tackled several Drupal challenges to expand editorial capabilities through site navigation, structure, and layout—without losing sight of the need to deliver an experience that keeps readers and contributors coming back for more.

Find out how Drupal can help you repurpose top performing content, increase overall stickiness, and reduce technical debt. Using an iterative design approach, we installed new “engines” to make much needed improvements and maintained our speed at 800k page views per month.

In this session, you will learn:

  • Technical challenges Opensource.com and Enterprisersproject.com were facing and the implemented solutions

  • How community-generated content improves the health of websites

  • Dangers and risks to avoid while using an iterative design approach

  • How to adopt an experimental mindset for decision making

  • Future plans and ideas for community-powered websites

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Session Track

UX

Experience Level

Beginner

Drupal Version