The Drupal Ecosystem for Drupal Services

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Drupal Camp Dubai | November 30 2013

THE DRUPAL ECOSYSTEM FOR DRUPAL SERVICES

How to Productize your Drupal services

Tuesday, 03, December 2013

http://www.vardot.com

http://www.vardot.com


Mohammed J. Razem

CEO & Founder at [email protected]@moerazemd.o/user/255384


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Web Products & Web Services

In Context



Products vs. ServicesProducts Services

• Develop once, sell multiple

• Need a new “project” every time

• Maintain one system • Maintain multiple “projects”

• Focused teams - can run Agile easily

• Harder to get same quality; multiple teams



Productizing Services



What do we want to achieve?

• Reduce “Total Cost of Ownership” for the customer

• Reduce “Operational Costs” for the vendor

• Provide higher quality standards


Drupal Project’s Most Time Consuming Phases

In Context



Drupal Project Life Span




Site Building, Development & Theming1




Site Building, Development & Theming

Launch, and After-launch Monitoring

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Site Building, Development & Theming

Launch, and After-launch Monitoring

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How to use Drupal effectively in each phaseto productize?



• Invest in “Installation Profiles” for each Vertical - a.k.a “Distributions”





• Have a “Features Server”






• Use “Drush”






• Use “Drush”

• Use a streamlined development environment - such as “Acquia Cloud”





‣ Build and configure your own Go Kit






‣ Build once, for each vertical, use to many!







‣ No need to reconfigure Drupal every time you have a new project







‣ No need to reconfigure Drupal every time you have a new project

‣ Packaged and maintained through drupal.org





‣ Examples:





‣ Examples:

‣ Drupal Commons





‣ Examples:

‣ Drupal Commons

‣ Open Scholar





‣ Examples:

‣ Drupal Commons

‣ Open Scholar

‣ Open Public





‣ Examples:

‣ Drupal Commons

‣ Open Scholar

‣ Open Public

‣ Varbase - saved 32 hoursfor each project






• Use “Drush”

• Use “Acquia Cloud” for stream-lined development





‣ Package multiple functions that can be used on multiple sites






‣ Do it once, use for many







‣ Can be versioned








‣ More like Apps








‣ More like Apps

‣ Easier deployment; Saves development time!!





‣ Examples:





‣ Examples:

‣ News section





‣ Examples:

‣ News section

‣ Promotion slider





‣ Examples:

‣ News section


‣ Microsite builder





‣ Examples:

‣ News section


‣ Microsite builder

• http://features.drupal.vardot.com - saved hundreds of hours



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• Use “Drush”

• Use “Acquia Cloud” for stream-lined development




• Use “Drush”




• Use “Drush”

‣ Swiss knife of Drupal




• Use “Drush”


‣ Speeds up development by 4x




• Use “Drush”



‣ Managing multiple environment from one place




• Use “Drush”



‣ Managing multiple environment from one place

‣ Easy Drupal updates - with backups






• Use “Drush”






‣ Multi-Drupal environments for development and production






‣ Enforces streamlined standard development







‣ Installation Profiles and Drush integration







‣ Installation Profiles and Drush integration

‣ Has an API to extend, and build your own workflow





Launch, and After-launch Monitoring2



• Almost 100 items to check before launch





‣ SEO





‣ SEO

‣ Performance





‣ SEO

‣ Performance

‣ Security





‣ SEO

‣ Performance

‣ Security

‣ Best practices





‣ SEO

‣ Performance

‣ Security

‣ Best practices

‣ Accessibility





‣ SEO

‣ Performance

‣ Security

‣ Best practices

‣ Accessibility

‣ Theme and design




• Create your own “Checklist”

‣ Requires manual check

‣ Can not be used for monitoring

‣ Very customized




• Use “Production Check” module‣ Digitalize your checklist

‣ Customizable and hookable

‣ One click validation before launch

‣ Periodically check and keep on monitoring your site

‣ Keep your website updated




• Use “Production Check” module‣ One dashboard for

all sites

‣ Host on our own “monitor” server

‣ Integrates with Nagiosfor instant alerts viaemail, SMS, Twitter DM




• Use “Acquia Insight”

‣ Monitors over 80 conf, performance and security settings

‣ Provides overall score for performance, SEO, security and best-practices




Bottom line...

Use & invest in the right tools (Features, Installation Profiles,

Production Monitor, Streamlined Dev Environment)

It will save everybody’s time and money



Thank You!

Any questions?


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