The Weather Channel (TWC) has one of the most highly visited Drupal web sites (http://www.weather.com/) 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/. (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



DIRECTIONS / PARKING



Please familiarize yourself with the directions (http://files.meetup.com/469210/adug-wardlaw-parking-instructions.pdf) in advance, and allow ample time to park and walk to the GordyRoom at the Wardlaw Center at Georgia Tech! For even more directions: http://drupal.gatech.edu/adug



ABOUT OUR PRESENTER



James Rutherford

Director of Client Services, Mediacurrent



As Director of Client Services at Mediacurrent, James is responsible for client satisfaction and project success across all of Mediacurrent's engagements. James has worked at Mediacurrent for over 4 years and works closely with customers to ensure Mediacurrent's solutions align with their business needs.



Before becoming Director of Client Services, James worked as a Lead Drupal Architect at Mediacurrent with experience that includes leading the redevelopment of Manhattan Associates flagship website into a fully translated Drupal 6 site serving hundreds of resources in over six languages. James worked as part of Mediacurrent team that migrated Georgia.gov and all Georgia Technology Authority websites from a proprietary CMS to Drupal 7, personally handling the migration of Georgia.gov data.



James has a Computer Science Degree from Georgia Southern and has been an active member of the Drupal community for 8 years.



AGENDA



• 06:15pm - Socialize



• 06:45pm - ADUG Business and Introductions



• 07:00pm - Program



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