calvin hendryx parker adding super powers to plone

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10.11.2007Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Adding Super Powers to Plone

Six Feet Up, Inc. • http://www.sixfeetup.com Silicon Valley • Midwest

10.11.2007Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker

orUse the Right Tool for the

Right Job

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10.11.2007Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Why do we use Plone?

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• Powerful Workflow tools

• WYSIWYG tools for editing

• WebDAV and FTP built in for managing content

• SmartFolders

• Versioning, Staging and Locking

• Support for Word and PDF document indexing

Content Management System First

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• OpenID support

• Fine grained Security Permissions

• Users and Groups Administration

Membership Management

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• Plone is slow (it does a lot for us)

Content Delivery

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Content Delivery

0

1,875

3,750

5,625

7,500

requests/second

Plone Zope Apache Nginx

7,462

750

2278

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• CMFDeployment

• Entransit

• Deliverance

• CacheFu

• Squid

• Varnish

Solutions

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Why do make Plone do unnatural things?

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Highly Interactive Sites

• Twitter-like Web 2.0

• High Level of Social Interaction

• Visitor Generated Content

• Tracking Visitor Downloads and Interaction

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Get Agile

• Zope 2 or 3

• Grok

• Pylons

• Django

• Ruby on Rails

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• Long running issue

• Many solutions, but none that great yet

eCommerce

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• Commercial Cart Applications

• osCommerce

• Roll your own

• Pylons

• Ruby on Rails

Solutions

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No Plone, How do we find things?

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• Xapian

• Lucene

• Google Search Appliances

Enhanced Search Engines

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Get the Word Out

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• ExactTarget

• Constant Contact

• VerticalResponse

Mailing List

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• Salesforce.com

• NetSuite

• SurveyWorld

• SurveyMonkey.com

Other Software as a Service

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• OODBMS is great

• Except if the data is highly relational

Relational Data

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• Zope DB Adapters

• Other frameworks

• Zope 3

• Pylons

• Rails

Solutions

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Large Files

• Video

• Audio

• PDFs

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Solutions

• Streaming Media Servers

• Tramline

• Filesystem Storage

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Where is the all heading?

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Questions?