Designer’s checklist when dealing with Drupal

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:38:58 +0000

Designer’s checklist when dealing with Drupal admin Thu, 04/19/2018 - 12:38

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While developing Drupal site the design is an important part of the project, whether it is a complex administrative platform or a simple commerce piece. People love to use intuitive and aesthetically pleasing products. And it’s not just about beautiful pictures and smooth animations.

This checklist/reminder includes tips that are important not only in the designers-perfectionist world but also will be appreciated by the customers eventually. These simple, yet useful advice can help to keep the purity and achieve the project completeness, which ultimately will save the team resources and allows your managers to sleep peacefully before the deadline and a client to get a full inbox of thankful emails.

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How to build and maintain Drupal distributions as a SaaS Business

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:07:56 +0000

How to build and maintain Drupal distributions as a SaaS Business admin Thu, 04/19/2018 - 12:07

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Jaap Jan Koster

We at Open Social offer 3 flavours of our product:

Open Source Distribution on drupal.org
SaaS Basic/Premium - version of the distro with a few additional features
SaaS Enterprise - version of distro with customisations (e.g. theme, additional features or adjustments)

These are just a few examples of Enterprise sites we have been building: Pachamama Alliance, Connecting Business Initiative for United Nations, GlobalDevHub, SDG Philanthropy. All hosted on Platform.sh. In April 2017 we launched our SaaS Basic version which allowed everyone to create an Open Social instance within just 10 minutes.

The solution we needed to find had some requirements:

Freedom of choice regarding hosting location (Europe/USA/Australia/etc)
It needs to work well for our developers without the need of extensive hosting knowledge

In this session you'll learn:

A bit about maintain multiple product variations (distro, saas, enterprise)
How we leveraged Platform.sh to build a scalable SaaS Business
How to maintain a Drupal (distro) SaaS collection of sites with with open-source tools
The challenges we faced or still facing
How to build your own SaaS infrastructure

This session is aimed at intermediate devops or developers interested in maintaining multiple Drupal sites as SaaS or if you are just interested in different ways to maintain and set-up your Drupal sites.