pantheon @ drupal down under
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Talk about the Pantheon Drupal Platform at Drupal Down Under 2011 in Brisbane.TRANSCRIPT
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Monday, November 15, 2010
Drupal Is Tricky
Monday, November 15, 2010
Pantheon is Simple
Monday, November 15, 2010
Hard to Install
• Server
• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP
• Cron
• Clean Urls
• Security
• DNS
and thats just to get started!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Cloud Based Installation
“Josh Koenig as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010
Drupal is SLOW
• Heavy Database Use
• Limited Caching
• PHP
• Lots of Code
Monday, November 15, 2010
Ridiculously Fast
“David Strauss as a Service”
Pantheon = Pressflow + Varnish + Memcache + APC
Monday, November 15, 2010
Developer Confusion
• Version Control
• Database + Files + Code
• Staging Environment?
Monday, November 15, 2010
Automatic Git Based Code Workflow
“Sam Boyer as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010
Drupal Search Sucks
• Poor Performance
• Exact Matching Only
• Limited Complexity
• No Facets
Need We Say More?
Monday, November 15, 2010
Better DefaultSearch Solution
“Robert Douglass as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010
Hard to Update
• No Automatic Updates
• Hard to Maintain Changes
Monday, November 15, 2010
Automatic Updates
“Drush as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010
Lack of Testing
• Limited Testing Platform for Drupal 6
• No Integration of Tests with Developer Workflow
Monday, November 15, 2010
Automatic Testing + Continuous Integration
“Simpletest + Selenium + Hudson as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010
Backups + Restoration
• Easy to Forget
• Hard to Restore
• Database + Files + Code Make it Tricky
Monday, November 15, 2010
One Click Backups + Restorations
“Gerhard Killesreiter as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010
Put The Human At The
Top Of The Stack
Saturday, January 22, 2011
make the robots to the #@&%’ng work
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Watch the Magic....
Monday, November 15, 2010
Team Pantheon
Josh Koenig
Matt Cheney
Zack Rosen
David Strauss
Previously
Pantheon
- Full time effort since May- 3,500+ hours invested- 4 FTE engineers
- Founded Chapter Threee- Founder Four Kitchens- Launched / scaled 300+ Drupal sites
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Road Ahead
• Pick Your Distribution
• Install Your Add Ons
• “Get Rid of the System Admin”
Monday, November 15, 2010
Now in Beta. Codes are Available.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Questions?
Monday, November 15, 2010
getpantheon.com@pantheon_drupal
Saturday, January 22, 2011