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The "JAMstack" is some great branding that describes websites that are built entirely by javascript, API calls, and served as completely static pages.
Compared to LAMP platforms like Drupal and Wordpress, JAMstack has four huge things going for it:
1. High traffic sites that cost thousands of dollars a month could transition to a single server + CDN on low tier hosting (under 100 dollars a month)
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Over the past year, Last Call Media has been working with the development team at Massachusetts Digital Services on improving the stability and performance of the mass.gov platform. One phase of this journey was to realize some massive performance gains on both the front and the back end of the site. In the first part of this session, we’ll talk about the backend performance, discussing:
How we used Blackfire and New Relic to identify issues
More Meetings = Less Engagement. Simple. Most project managers can talk about process until the cows come home! But what can you do to shake the herd mentality?
We often talk about websites the way we talk about cars. Are you driving a flashy sports car or a stable hatchback? And is yours a lemon, no matter how pretty the paint job? And if you just got one used, what’s going on under the hood? There’s a way to address these questions about your website, and it’s called a technical audit.
Have you ever wondered about the implications of your architectural decisions? Should an entity reference go on this entity type or that one? Why? Is it ok to nest many different entity types together? How many is too many? How many levels down? Paragraphs? Why? Fields or entity displays? When and why?
Drupal has been criticized as "being slow" and, it's true, performance can sometimes be an issue. Some performance improvements are made easily by turning on core caching and leveraging a good hosting platform that provides things like Varnish and Redis support. Once you get through the easier wins, tuning can get more challenging and, often, the issues lie with slow database queries.
In this session, we will cover:
New Relic is an amazing tool that can help us monitor and debug performance issues and errors. It is available from managed hosting environments such as Acquia, Amazee.io, Pantheon, and Platform.sh and you can integrate it with DIY servers too.
This session will cover some of the important features of New Relic including:
I'd like to present the case study at https://www.drupal.org/case-study/bunny-farm-framework-for-building-the…, detailing how I came up with the architecture, how it works, and why it would be useful.
The module and architecture encapsulates what I've learned over the years on how to create maintainable, fast and secure systems, supporting both decoupled (JSON) and normal Drupal output.
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Functional programming is a paradigm with origins in lambda calculus and the 1930's. Stack Overflow's developer surveys from both 2017 and 2018 show that the languages optimized for functional programming are low in popularity. However, the same survey recognizes that developers actually working in Elixir, Clojure, F#, and Haskell, actually love their languages much more than PHP or C developers.
So functional programming is unpopular but fun!
