Drupal in the EnterpriseIBM and Norwegian Cruise LineRob Shea

NCL.com

Software Licensing

ProprietaryLicensing

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OSS Licensing

DeveloperWhy aren’t the servers setup yet?

ArchitectWe are waiting for the licenses to be purchased.

DeveloperSo, we can’t install freely distributed open source software until we purchase a license?

ArchitectCorrect

OSS Licensing in the Enterprise

What can you do?• Educate decision makers

– OSS vs. proprietary licensing• Work with legal, contracts• Define relationships with code

– Who owns the code?– Who owns custom code?

• Enterprise, development contractor, GPL?– Can contrib modules and patches be shared with the

community?

Support

Proprietary Support

OSS Support

OSS Support in the Enterprise

• Needs to be same as proprietary– Support contracts– Defined maintenance and escalated support– Required for enterprise adoption

• Support contract vendors are critical!– Not just development contractors

• Red Hat support made Linux viable in the Enterprise

ContentModel

ContentModel

$BusinessNeeds

Integration

LegacyData

TemplateNeeds

Content model lessons learned

• Start Agile• Prototype• Documentation

– Painful to keep accurate

– If required, automatically generate from CCK

Integration

Drupal

Legacy CMS

Search Index

Pricing

Flash www

Integration· Custom Modules· Import/Export· XML/JSON· Node API/cron

Geotargeting

Content Deployment

Content deployment

deploy module services module

Staging

Integration

QA

Production

Large development teams

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Large team best practices

• Team leads– Identify and involve early– Prototype– Contrib vs. custom– Contrib module selection– Approve all modules & tools

• Communications• Don't modify core• Don’t modify contrib modules

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

CDN

Load Balancer

Drupal

Drupal

Drupal

MySQLFirewall Intrusion

Detection

Caching Strategy

Caching Strategy

• Cache, cache, cache• Design infrastructure to cache• Create development mindset for caching• Manage content scheduling expectations

Caching Strategy

• CDN or reverse proxy• Drupal• Memory• PHP• Views• Query

Code Deployment

Code Deployments• Subversion• Git - simplifies branching and merging• Capistrano

– Deploys code from git– Compass compile CSS– Environmental settings– Script other tasks– Unit tests– Patches applied at deploy time– Clear Drupal cache

Monitoring

Monitoring

• ganglia• nagios• email• sms

Agile Practices

Agile Practices• 2 week

iterations/sprints– code– integration testing– user acceptance testing– deployment

• Rational Team Concert (jazz.net)– issues– estimating– iterations

• Cross functional• Self-organizing• Scrum• Velocity tracking• Pair programming• Open work space

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