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Great websites are made before a line of code is ever written.  By developing strategies in collaboration with our clients, powered by insights about users, we lay the groundwork for transformative possibilities.

This talk will focus on such strategies, and identify how applying them can:

• accelerate innovation fueled by a common vision
• intentionally align key stakeholder needs
• reduce risk and lower costs through early alignment

Most of us have been trained to write user stories.

As a < type of user >, I want < some goal > so that < some reason >.

We write these on whiteboards.
We write these on notecards.
We write these in crazy software that promises to help us work more efficiently.

In the end, they end up being used as a checkbox

The Aegir Hosting System has been used for hosting thousands of Drupal sites for over 11 years, using Drupal as a web interface for managing your servers and sites.

In classic Aegir 3.x and earlier, you still need root shell access to install and configure a few things before Aegir can work.

in 2016 I set out to solve this by creating server configuration tools in Ansible and integrating with Cloud server providers like DigitalOcean, Packet, and SoftLayer.

With the speed at which technology is changing, field research offers understanding into how products can impact the lives of your customers. Regardless if it’s your first or hundredth time, conducting field research is a daunting task. Planning and conducting field research is a juggling act between preparation, interview skills, and synthesis. In this talk, I’ll share some of the soft skills and key principles involved in any researcher’s toolkit and explore lessons learned from the three main stages of conducting field studies:

At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), the Department of Patient and Caregiver Engagement is dedicated to communicating and engaging with cancer patients, their caregivers, and the public. Within the department, the Patient and Caregiver Education Program collaborates with healthcare professionals to provide accurate, clear, and reliable educational resources.

Your ready to make that new release. You've tested it all in Docker locally, so you hit that commit button and push it all to production, confident that your CI will deploy it perfectly every time. Then, disaster strikes: A minor difference between prod and your local brings your site down. If only you could use the same containers locally as in production!

Now you can, with Kubernetes.

Using drupal-test-traits you can run tests in an existing Drupal site, with all necessary configurations installed. This leads to better integration tests. Unlike default Drupal test framework, you only install all the config once, and this leads to faster integration tests.

I have used that test framework in a project at Axelerant. I would like to share the knowledge and experience in the session.

Any libre software, volunteer, or even startup project will have elements of do-ocracy (rule of those who do the work) but not all decisions should devolve to implementors. Rather, a basic principle is that decisions should be made by the people who are most affected.

In this session i will focus on the Jenkins CICD pipeline setup done for D8 project, which can be reused by majority of D8 project with minor to no tweak. The talk with touch upon

Approaching accessibility from the start of a project can greatly impact usability. From initial wireframing to entering content in a CMS, there are many ways to plan for and implement a fully inclusive website: color contrast can be measured before any CSS is written, heading structures can be mapped before any markup is created. Messy navigation patterns can be reconsidered before a menu structure is built. When accessibility is valued as an essential part of the user experience, everyone can help make it easier to implement.

GraphQL has quickly become a data API alternative to REST due to its flexible query structure, and the community has developed a mature

CI and automation is all the rage right now, and rightfully so. The ability to have automated testing and rapid feedback on the quality of your code is invaluable. We will share our agencies first experiences with CI as we have tried to integrate it into our process one step at a time, how we feel it has helped our teams and some of the pitfalls.

We’ll cover:

A fully decoupled architecture can provide many benefits: more specialized front-end and back-end developers, easier project management with less dependencies, and more reusable front-end code. However, this solution is not right for every project: Hosting and deployment becomes more complicated, JS apps don’t have access to powerful Drupal functionality, and some clients don’t love the idea of also maintaining a separate JS stack.

Backdrop CMS includes an in-site module installer that downloads from BackdropCMS.org.  In an upcoming version of Backdrop, these module packages (and eventually the modules themselves) will be digitally signed by the Backdrop CMS team using a new Code Sign interface.  John will talk about how Code Sign works, why it is in Backdrop, and how it affects sites from the perspectives of site owners, site builders, and module developers.

Drupal’s extensibility allow us to create the perfect CMS for our organizations. But too often the same level of design is not considered when building out the editorial interfaces. The default tools are often scary for first-time Drupalers and include confusing words like ‘nodes’, ‘taxonomy’, and ‘blocks’. Making Drupal friendly for clients means checking internal jargon at the door and building interfaces that are intuitive and distraction free. Topics include:

If you site is not running on a CDN, you are doing it wrong. Modern websites receive enormous benefits in terms of speed & reliability when utilizing a content delivery network - and setting one up for your site has never been easier.

CDNs offer the best in class support for making websites fast utilizing techniques such as HTTPS/2 (soon HTTPS/3), image compression, global points of presence, TLS integration, cache tags (in D8 core!), & much more!

Great technologists often rise through the ranks, assuming responsibilities that go beyond just delivering technical work. This talk reflects on my journey from an engineer to leading teams.

SimplyTest.me is a long-standing, free service that has served Drupal community with an easy-to-use tool for creating Drupal sandboxes.

Drupal includes a powerful toolset for building and extending out-of-the box content types. Content architectures are typically designed around the features of nodes, taxonomy, media, and other core entities. But how do we know when our business-needs have grown beyond the common entity types? When are nodes too lightweight or too heavy handed to meet our site goals? And what are the trade-offs and support issues when creating a new entity type?

Troubleshooting is a little bit art and a little bit science, and it's one of the core skillsets that every developer should focus on. In this talk, I use clips from movies (and the occasional TV show) to illustrate fundamental troubleshooting scenarios and relate them to practical code issues that you are likely to find in your day-to-day work . The presentation uses visual aids and memorable sequences so that creative troubleshooting ideas stay top of mind when you run into similar problems in your code or infrastructure. 

Proposed presentation.  The use of Drupal in the corporate environment - challenges and industry trends.  Open source vs acquia - what are the gaps.  Challenges with content and solutions like Cohesion DX.