Talks

This is a follow-up to my DrupalCon Pittsburgh talk from a year prior and the shorter DrupalCon Lille talk. It provides a ~15 minute overview of the status nor the progress, but dedicates the majority to 5 (!!!) live demos to show how to start using config validation today:

This is a follow-up to my DrupalCon Pittsburgh talk. It does not provide an overview of the status nor the progress, but instead it’s hands-on, with 2 live demos to help attendees:

As has become a tradition since DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019, all Drupal core initiatives with leads attending DrupalCon Lille took part in a PechaKucha-style keynote format. Despite not leading any initiative right now, I was asked to present the status & progress of the work on Config Validation that I together with a handful of others have been doing in the past few months.

Drupal 8 shipped with many exciting new concepts, including “configuration”, “configuration and content entities”, “validation constraints” and “API-First”.

The missing link between these has always been the inability to modify configuration through Drupal’s REST or JSON:API. Because only content entities have validation constraints.

All Drupal core initiatives with leads attending DrupalCon Amsterdam took part in an experimental PechaKucha-style keynote format (up to 15 slides each, 20 seconds per slide):

The benefits of backwards compatibility (BC) are clear: no users are left behind. Which leads to higher adoption rates because you’re often getting new features and you always have the latest security fixes.

As part of working in Acquia’s Office of the CTO, I’ve been working on the API-First Initiative for the past year and a half! Where are we at? Find out :)

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The Drupal render pipeline and its caching capabilities have been the subject of quite a few talks of mine and of multiple writings. But all of those were very technical, very precise.

As part of working in Acquia’s Office of the CTO, I’ve been working on the API-First Initiative for the past year and a half! Where are we at? Find out :)

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As part of working in Acquia’s Office of the CTO, I’ve been working on the API-First Initiative for the past year and a half! Where are we at? Find out :)

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