A Survey of Emerging Technologies That Complement Drupal

This presentation is a high-level survey of current emerging technologies in today’s landscape. We’ll look at a series of technologies that are capable of integrating with Drupal in complementary ways.

Drupal can do a lot of things well on its own, but, it is also capable of working with great tools off of the island. Drupal’s robust framework and vast set of contributed modules allows for it to cleanly work with other tools and systems.

This can be particularly advantageous to leverage best-of-breed tools in specialized areas, where Drupal can be leveraged for its strengths and work in concert with other technologies in the enterprise. We look at the bigger picture by exploring problems solved by some emerging technologies, describe the separation of responsibilities between the systems, and share potential solutions.

The emerging technologies we will explore are:

• Hubspot and marketing automation/CRM

• ElasticSearch and search/log management/visualization

• Cypress.io and modern JavaScript testing

• GraphQL/Schemata and decoupled web services

• Pattern Lab and design systems

• Gatsby.JS and static site generation

Attendees can expect to learn high-level capabilities of the emerging technologies and some ideas on how to use them in concert with Drupal.