How Drupal 8 Reaches Its Full Potential on Pantheon

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Drupal 8: The Future of Drupal

Matthew M. L. Cheney

David T. Strauss

Drupal 8: It’s all happening!

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Drupal 8: November 19th, 2015

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Drupal 8: Supported on Pantheon

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Drupal 8: November 19th, 2015

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What a Long, Strange Road It Has Been

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But as a Community We Made It!

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Biggest Release of Drupal Ever

4+ Years of Development

3,200+ Contributing Developers

200+ New Features & Improvements

Drupal 8 is the Future of Drupal

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“State of Drupal,” Paris 2009

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“The Magic of Drupal,” Vancouver 2013

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I believe that it is Drupal’s destiny to run double digit percentages of the internet.

Things Have Changed a Lot

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This is Not Exactly What Happened

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Open Source CMS Has Competition

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Travel Stories from WordPress Land

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WordPress is used by 58.8% of all the CMS websites.

This is 24.8% of all websites.

-- w3techs.com

This is Not Exactly What Happened

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Drupal’s Greatest Challenge

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Drupal is increasingly appealing to professional developers of complex sites backed by substantial budgets.

Drupal’s Greatest Opportunity

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Drupal is increasingly appealing to professional developers of complex sites backed by substantial budgets.

The CMS Spectrum

Free CMS Software is Here to Stay

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Still Winning Still Important

Drupal 8 is Just One Tool in Your Box

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To Make a Better Web for Everyone

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David: Creep to the Mic Like a Vandal

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Drupal 8.0.0: The Complete* CMS

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The Philosophy of P.I.E.

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Based on Symfony

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Composer Friendly

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Object-Oriented and Namespaced

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Migrate to Upgrade

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REST.module in Core

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Plus a Lot of Performance Improvements

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Plus a Lot of Performance Improvements

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Plus a Lot of Security Improvements

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Configuration Management

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Up Again: Matthew Cheney

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Views in Core

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More Fields in Core

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WYSIWYG in Core

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Modern Authoring Experience

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Inline Editing

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Mobile Friendly Design

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Modern Templating System

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More Multiple Language Features

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D8 is a Great Harvest of Functionality

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Say Hello Again to David Strauss

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Pantheon Will Help You Be Great with D8

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One Click Spinup of Drupal 8

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One Click Updates of Drupal 8

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Easier to Migrate D6/7 to D8

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Pantheon Knows PHP 5.5

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A Modern Platform for a Modern CMS

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4.x 10.04.2+

DROPS-8: Faster & Cleaner

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Configuration Management Rules

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Configuration Management Rules!

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Configuration Management Rules!

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It is time to get real with MMLC

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Let’s Jump into Drupal 8

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pantheon.io/d8

Close Us Out David

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So Start Developing with Drupal 8 Today

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Being Successful with D8 Takes Work

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● Relearning is Necessary

● Using an IDE is Preferred

● D8 Looks like D7, But 95% New Code. Learn it All!

Drupal 8.0.0 is a Work In Progress

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But Be Realistic With Launch Dates

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Drupal 8.1.x is Coming

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More to come...

Thank You For Your Attention

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Thank you for your attentionon this webinar on Drupal 8: The Future of Drupal.

Questions?

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