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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Meeting of the awesome local Drupal group you always wanted to attend - now ON CAMPUS each 2nd Thursday!
Underneath the Wardlaw building, see detailed directions on our GT Drupal site.
Visit the ADUG meetup site for more information on this month's meeting.
The Weather Channel (TWC) has one of the most highly visited Drupal web sites in the world. Join James Rutherford from Atlanta’s Mediacurrent to gain insight into the architectural decisions that allowed Mediacurrent to address this complex site’s requirements.
Learn how Mediacurrent and TWC to worked together to understand and tackle the many engineering challenges that arose. The Weather Channel’s migration to Drupal included both addressing editorial concerns and replacing legacy systems and taking over the front end serving.
See it in action at http://www.weather.com/.
You’ll hear about the pain points that TWC was experiencing before the conversion:
• With over 2 million locations with unique forecasts cache, efficiency was low.
• Feature velocity was a challenge as requirements sometimes change quickly
• Too many hurdles in the current platform to content generation
• Too many legacy platforms to support
And you’ll learn about innovations created within the Drupal framework to support TWC:
• Presentation framework allows independent teams to create flexible widgets that can vary in presentation based on the consuming device (ESI, native, inline or AngularJS)
• How mobile has become a hub that supports the mobile apps
• How the content workflow is write once use many places
• Highly leveraging ESI and a novel routing concept to increase cache efficiency
