Migrating Weather.com - James Rutherford (Atlanta Drupal User's Group - March 12 2015)

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The video for the March 12th Atlanta Drupal User's Group presentation on Migrating Weather.com is now available.

Migrating Weather.com - James Rutherford (ADUG 2015-03-12)

The Weather Channel (TWC) has one of the most highly visited Drupal web sites in the world. James Rutherford from Atlanta’s Mediacurrent gives insight into the architectural decisions that allowed them to address this complex site’s requirements.
You’ll hear about the pain points that TWC was experiencing before the conversion:
• With over 2 million locations with unique forecasts cache, efficiency was low.
• Feature velocity was a challenge as requirements sometimes change quickly
• Too many hurdles in the current platform to content generation
• Too many legacy platforms to support
And you’ll learn about innovations created within the Drupal framework to support TWC:
• Presentation framework allows independent teams to create flexible widgets that can vary in presentation based on the consuming device (ESI, native, inline or AngularJS)
• How mobile has become a hub that supports the mobile apps
• How the content workflow is write once use many places
• Highly leveraging ESI and a novel routing concept to increase cache efficiency

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I think the link might not

agh1's picture

I think the link might not have come through--where's the video? I'd love to see it.

The bad news is - I forgot to

Webbeh's picture

The bad news is - I forgot to attach the video to the post.

The good news is - the video's audio is apparently warped in Vimeo at the moment, so I'm waiting to hear back on how our technical members can get this resolved before we can advertise it more broadly. Stay tuned and I should have it up as soon as the technical glitch is fixed.

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