Remote working can exacerbate the worst failings of waterfall web development—the practice of developing websites in discrete linear steps, which means work must happen sequentially, not concurrently, and projects take longer to complete.
Like with preventative maintenance on your car, you can’t expect your CMS to deliver peak performance and optimal reliability if you skip your service appointments and don’t maintain it. We can all agree that’s sage advice.
Today marks the release of Drupal 9.1, the first new feature release for the web’s favorite enterprise-grade, open-source CMS. It also marks the next step in Pantheon’s evolution for supporting modern PHP development practices, with the availability of Drupal 9.1 with new Integrated Composer workflow.
The development team implemented an automated continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) process using Terminus, Pantheon’s command line interface (CLI) and Multidev workflow. Each time the development team made a change on the site or worked on a new feature, they were able to automatically spin up a new environment on Pantheon to preview the change. This meant the marketing team and Kanopi could evaluate and test new features throughout the redesign process.
Rensselaer Polytechnic University (RPI) in Troy, New York, has long been renowned as a pioneer in educating future engineering and science leaders. It hosts one of the most powerful university-based supercomputers in the world and spends over $100 million annually to support undergraduate and graduate research that benefits both the private and public sectors.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago. The Lab welcomes researchers from early-career scientists and Nobel Laureates to high-school students to postdoctoral fellows.
The official website of the New York State Senate, NYSenate.gov, is dedicated to providing all New Yorkers unprecedented access to state senators and staff. The site features messaging systems and live streaming sessions to solicit and quickly act on constituent feedback. It’s a remarkable model for democracy in the digital age.
Perforce Software is a developer of software used for application development. Its tools help solve some of the most complex developer challenges for 75% of Fortune 100 companies. With a high caliber of clients, Perforce could not afford frequent outages and the lack of appropriate developer tools that kept plaguing their website operations. It was almost a problem of a carpenter’s house always needing work.
Adaptive is an experienced Drupal agency based in the UK. Its clients range from corporate brands to international non-profits, including some well-known names like Reuters Events and the Institute of Physics.
There are a lot of articles already that talk about Continuous Integration practices and how to implement CI as a process. As a developer, all of these things sound great, but I've often heard folks tell me it's hard to get internal buy-in on the upfront cost of changing workflow/process that is already “working”.