Our session presentation at Drupal Camp Arad 2012: ”Using Drupal to create high scale websites with multiple instances. Case study: Fish Hub”

1. Using Drupal to create large scale websites
with multiple instances.
CASE STUDY: FISHHUB
Florin Tarnovanu – epoint
Todd Thille – Amplifier Strategies

2. Some funny facts

3. Fun facts
21516 lines of code
1024 1033 tables in database for a community
over 120 liters of coffee
over 60 AA batteries for mice
Thursday became our “Friday 13th”

4. Overview

5. Overview
About Fish Hub
Fishermen communities across USA
Fish Hub is a Drupal application built to help communities of fishermen
across the USA to manage resources, plan boat and harvest catches,
promote and manage their business, interact and exchange useful
information.
Community Partners

6. Overview
Homepage

7. Overview
Communities

8. Overview
Workflow
Agile process
1 Week Sprints
Weekly releases
Client feedback each week
tools
JIRA
Bitbucket
Atlassian (Crucible, FishEye)
Google Drive
Skype

9. Overview
Environment
Cloud hosting
Server
4 GB RAM
2 Core processor
Apache, php5, mysql, xcache, memcache
Fishermen Community = Drupal Instance
ÆGIR

10. Overview
Environment

11. Applications
Main functionalities

12. Applications
Platform (Wheelhouse)
Dashboard for each main tool

13. Applications
Platform (Wheelhouse)
PROfile information

14. Applications
Platform (Wheelhouse)
Messaging system

15. Applications
Platform (Wheelhouse)
Marketing page

16. Applications
Platform (Wheelhouse)
feeds

17. Applications
Platform (Wheelhouse)
News & events

18. Applications
Platform (Wheelhouse)
Business information

19. Applications
Boat Plan
Planning a business

20. Applications
Boat Plan
Planning a business
Yearly Plan
Income / expenses
Real-time generated charts
Automatic calculations
Share plan as pdf or by mail
Instant / actual income & expenses

21. Applications
Boat Plan
Settlement sheets

22. Applications
QuotaX
The marketplace of the community

23. Applications
QuotaX
TRANSACTIONS / PORTfolios

24. Applications
QuotaX
Programs

25. Todd
NOAA Connector
WHAT is NOAA?
A government agency managing fisheries in the USA
Main issue
Data entered from hand written-forms with lots of errors. Fishermen need
a tool for monitoring the data.
Our solution
Tools to connect to NOAA websites
cURL
scriptable GUI
Rules to generate Alerts

26. Todd
NOAA Connector

27. Todd
NOAA Connector

28. Challenges in Drupal

29. Challenges
Features synchronization
Keeping everything the same
Local 3
Local 1 Local 2
Dev
Stage
Community A Community C
Community B Community D

30. Challenges
Node synchronization
Central species list
(updates made)
db_set_active()
Push updates to all communities

31. Challenges
Master community

32. Challenges
Master species list

33. Challenges
Performance
Complex application requires performance improvements
Caching
Memcached, xcache
Entity cache
Aggregation of css, js
mod_expire
inno_db parameters

34. Top contrib modules used

35. Modules
Views (/views)
The swiss army knife of Drupal

36. Modules
Field collection (/field_collection)
Field in field in field in field in field in field ...

37. Modules
Homebox (/homebox)
Custom blocks resizable and reorderable everywhere

38. Modules
Profile2 (/profile2)
One user, multiple profiles

39. Overview
Webform (/webform)
Bringing forms to the next level

40. Modules
Modules
Chaos tools suite (/ctools)
AJAX Forms at your fingertips
MENU trail by path (/menu_trail_by_path)
Brings the menu back on the right path

41. Modules
Modules
Sassy (/sassy)
SCSS – Faster to write, easier to maintain. Extends CSS with variables
and selector inheritance. Compiles with Compass tool.
( sass-lang.com, compass-style.org )
superfish (/superfish)
Super user-friendly super menus

42. Theming

43. Omega theme
HTML 5 compliant base theme.
Stylesheets were broken out into major sections of the site

44. We believe that people make the
difference in any successful project
Adelina Maxim Drupal user: adelina.maxim
Front-end Developer Email: adelina.maxim@epoint.ro
Marius Diacu Drupal user: maryus88
Web Developer Email: marius.diacu@epoint.ro
Todd Thille Drupal user: synesthete
Lead Developer Email: todd.thille@amplifierstrategies.com
Florin Tarnovanu Drupal user: neddstark
Web Developer Email: florin.tarnovanu@epoint.ro

45. We believe that people make the difference in
any successful project
The Fish Hub partners in Cape Cod, MA,
Morro Bay and Fort Bragg, CA and
Amplifier Strategies Design team.

46. Thank you for your
attention.
EPOINT Web Solutions SRL
VAT No RO 13120890 | Office: Str. Dornei No 3, 300393 TIMISOARA, ROMANIA | FAX +40 / 256 / 407 147
Amplifier Strategies
2800 Third Street, San Francisco, California, 94107, USA