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Welcome to the Drupal NYC monthly meetup!
Please join us on Wednesday, July 10th for our monthly Meetup for an evening of food, drinks, knowledge, and friendship at the HQ of our generous venue sponsor, MongoDB!
All are welcome to attend the Drupal NYC Meetup. At each meetup there will be one or more lightning talks and presentations as well as opportunities for new and old Drupalers to network, socialize, and get their Drupal questions answered.
You must enter your real name on the RSVP question (for building security) by 11am on Tuesday, July 9th or your RSVP will be removed. Check-in opens at 6pm sharp (please don't arrive earlier). We look forward to seeing you!
Agenda
• 6:00 - Check-in opens, socializing + pizza and drinks (generously sponsored by Pantheon)
• 6:30 - Announcements
• 6:45 - Who's hiring, who's looking?
• 6:50 - Presentations!
• 8:20 - Closing remarks, socializing + leftover pizza
• 8:45 - After party (location TBD)
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Presentation 1
"Content systems architecture: approaches in a decoupled world" by Dominic Laycock
Ten years ago, architecting content “systems” involved software solutioning and scaling the infrastructure to handle more traffic. DevOps meant “add Jenkins.” Enterprise-level development work generally required a week or two of architectural deliverables, even when third-party services were involved.
Today, the emerging content systems landscape requires a systems approach. As Head of Content Platform for The Economist, Dom and his team built a reactive microservices platform, between the original Drupal site and the new React front end. Then continued to evolve the multi-platform architecture as a whole, with a canonical content model at the center.
The difference between legacy and modern content systems is as conceptual as it is technical. Architecting emergent systems requires an evolution from strategic planning to collaborative strategic thinking — everyone seeing the parts through the lens of the whole.
What are the critical components of designing for emergence? In this talk we will share some approaches for building modern content systems, from concept to implementation strategies, and the role that technology leaders play in this process.
Attendees will likely have enough familiarity with content systems to benefit from this talk. They will leave with conceptual tools for collective design of emergent systems that integrate multiple platforms and purposes.
Bio:
Dominic Laycock has engineered and led teams through three major content system transformations: custom ColdFusion software through enterprise open-source CMS development into an event-driven microservices distribution platform. Previously Head of Content Platform at The Economist, he is now co-founder of Mentrix Group, a system design and development consultancy.
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Presentation 2
"Extending dependency injected core classes" by Father Shawn
Drupal 8 introduced many of us to dependency injection. When extending core classes that follow this pattern, most of us simply replicated what we saw in core. Shawn learned in Seattle that’s not what the core developers intended. He will share the intended pattern, which makes use of a seemingly impossible PHP “feature.” The added bonus is this pattern also prepares your custom and contributed code to be ready for Drupal 9.
Bio:
Father Shawn has been developing solutions with Drupal since 2009 and is an active member of the Drupal NYC community. He is married and has two young adult daughters. He and his family are proud residents of Brooklyn, New York. He is also an active contributor to Drupal, both through contributed modules and bug fixes to core. Outside of Drupal, Shawn is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. He enjoys computer gaming, and recently began learning to fly fish.
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Presentation 3
"Drupal on Kubernetes: An Example" by Jim Bartus & Jeremy Chase
In this talk we'll do a live demo of a basic Drupal install on a Kubernetes cluster. While it's running, we'll walk through the underlying components step by step showing how they're put together. This should serve as an introduction to Kubernetes concepts within the context of what they mean to Drupal.
Bio:
Jim & Jeremy are devops consultants and the co-founders of lamp.io.
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Have feedback for us? Let us know: http://drupal.nyc/feedback
Meanwhile, we are always looking for speakers! Volunteer/submit a suggestion at http://drupal.nyc/suggest or get in touch on Slack with any questions.