Less NIH, More PFE: Demolishing myths about Drupal - Slides for the Drupal Sessión on the Modern Web Event, organized by UOC.

1. Less NIH, More PFE
Demolishing myths about
Drupal

2. It’s me @davidjguru
drupal.org/rojomorgan

3. this.
drupal

4. Focus &
Scope
Well, well, well…
wait a minute
Drupal, hell, sucks
really?
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

5. 1- Technical bias
2- General Purpose vs. Specific Purpose
3- Orientation to standards
Possible reasons:

6. If I had to start from scratch...
...what about the big picture?
And so on, and so on...

7. Well, this is embarrassing...
Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, WIX, symfony, laravel, Yii...

8. so, How can I decide?

9. IMHO, There are three
fundamental
questions that you
must solve by
researching
(little by little)
1- How much effort
will it take to learn
this technology?
2- What use can I give
to this learning?
3- What is the future of
this platform?
ok, there we go! ->

10. Vanity Metrics vs. Observations
- more of 30K modules/plugins/extensions/whatever!
- more of 100K registered users!
- more of 2 millions downloads!
- 89% of the web uses this technology!
- important websites using this platform!
- include advanced features!
- the next big thing!
Without repeating features?
Active users? Yes?
I downloaded the same many times…
Can many people be wrong?
Of course, Indeed, well, yes, always
Yes? It is true?
YAWN
Let's talk seriously ->

11. PHP &
Standards
Recommend
ations
PROCEDURAL VS OOP
MVC
PSR
CODING
don’t repeat yourself
comment, comment, comment

12. Community
dynamics
Centralized vs distributed
documentation
Support channels
Patches and solutions
Events and Training
easy to get involved?
Drupical

13. please, tell me
about the
future
doctrine
dependencies
Headless
BigPipe
Microservices

14. CONCLUSIONS?
1- In the frame of FLOSS,
everything is much easier
2- It’s better learning in
standardized environments
3- Drupal has a number of
important advantages
4- It’s important to get involved

15. https://pantheon.io/blog/decoupled-architecture-wordpress-and-drupal
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/bigpipe-pipelin
ing-web-pages-for-high-performance/389414033919
http://buytaert.net/the-future-of-decoupled-drupal
http://drupal.sh/in-a-world-of-microservices-is-drupal-an-unwanted
-swiss-army-knife
https://opensource.com/business/16/6/which-php-framework-right-you
some recommendations:
Thank you for your time and I hope to see you at:
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