Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Monday, November 15, 2010

Drupal Is Tricky

Monday, November 15, 2010

Pantheon is Simple

Monday, November 15, 2010

Hard to Install

• Server

• Apache

• MySQL

• PHP

• Cron

• Clean Urls

• Security

• DNS

and thats just to get started!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Cloud Based Installation

“Josh Koenig as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010

Drupal is SLOW

• Heavy Database Use

• Limited Caching

• PHP

• Lots of Code

Monday, November 15, 2010

Ridiculously Fast

“David Strauss as a Service”

Pantheon = Pressflow + Varnish + Memcache + APC

Monday, November 15, 2010

Developer Confusion

• Version Control

• Database + Files + Code

• Staging Environment?

Monday, November 15, 2010

Automatic Git Based Code Workflow

“Sam Boyer as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010

Drupal Search Sucks

• Poor Performance

• Exact Matching Only

• Limited Complexity

• No Facets

Need We Say More?

Monday, November 15, 2010

Better DefaultSearch Solution

“Robert Douglass as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010

Hard to Update

• No Automatic Updates

• Hard to Maintain Changes

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Automatic Updates

“Drush as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010

Lack of Testing

• Limited Testing Platform for Drupal 6

• No Integration of Tests with Developer Workflow

Monday, November 15, 2010

Automatic Testing + Continuous Integration

“Simpletest + Selenium + Hudson as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010

Backups + Restoration

• Easy to Forget

• Hard to Restore

• Database + Files + Code Make it Tricky

Monday, November 15, 2010

One Click Backups + Restorations

“Gerhard Killesreiter as a Service”Monday, November 15, 2010

Put The Human At The

Top Of The Stack

Saturday, January 22, 2011

make the robots to the #@&%’ng work

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Watch the Magic....

Monday, November 15, 2010

Team Pantheon

Josh Koenig

Matt Cheney

Zack Rosen

David Strauss

Previously

Pantheon

- Full time effort since May- 3,500+ hours invested- 4 FTE engineers

- Founded Chapter Threee- Founder Four Kitchens- Launched / scaled 300+ Drupal sites

Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Road Ahead

• Pick Your Distribution

• Install Your Add Ons

• “Get Rid of the System Admin”

Monday, November 15, 2010

Now in Beta. Codes are Available.

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Questions?

Monday, November 15, 2010

getpantheon.com@pantheon_drupal

Saturday, January 22, 2011