Planning for the Decoupled Future with Drupal

This session is about “Internet of Things” (IoT) solutions, decoupled applications, and the need to evolve our standards for interfaces between Drupal as a content repository and disparate or decoupled applications.

The convergence of multiple technologies, ranging from wireless communication to the internet and from embedded systems to micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have enabled the emergence of IoT. It has taken automation at the next level as hardware, software, service and data are mixed together to build “things.” 

As we consider the future of content delivery in a super-connected world, we need to discuss what kinds of solutions are readily available in the Drupal ecosystem. Moreover, which solutions should we be looking towards for future implementations?

In this presentation we’ll discuss:
What Drupal Can Manage

• Centralized content delivery with minimal manual reproduction of content
• Event-driven delivery of content across disparate things (push notifications, rules)

What Drupal Can’t Manage (Yet)

• Personalization for users across a decoupled infrastructure
• Persistent and normalized event-grammar across decoupled infrastructure

For the solutions which Drupal can’t yet manage, we’ll review the use cases driven by an IoT and application-driven world. By identifying these gaps together, we hope as a community we can move towards defining interfaces which are rich, robust, and reusable.

Who should attend:

This would be an ideal session for all Drupal enthusiasts, even those at a basic level of OSS knowledge and Drupal expertise.