In this week's Lightning talk, I go through a case study on an investigation into Deadlocks and Render caching and why cache contexts are so important to get right. Check out the video below to find out how we were able to withstand 10x the throughput with smarter caching.
In a recent project we were outputting CSV and wanted to test that the file contents were valid.
Read on for a quick tip on how to achieve this with Drupal 8's BrowserTestBase
Drupal 8.4 is stable! With 8.3 coming to end of life, it's important to update your projects to the latest and greatest. This blog will guide you through upgrading from Drupal core 8.3 to 8.4 while avoiding those nasty and confusing composer dependency errors.
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend and deliver a session at DrupalCon Vienna. The session was based around leveraging and getting productive with the automated testing tools we use in the Drupal community.
Drupal 8.4.0 comes out in October, and at that time 8.3.x will be end-of-life (EOL).
There are two major vendor updates in 8.4.0 so the time to test your contrib and client projects is now.
In this post we talk about the coming changes and how to test your client and contrib projects.
Conversational UIs are the next digital frontier.
And as always, Drupal is right there on the frontier, helping you leverage your existing content and data to power more than just web-pages.
Want to see it action - click 'Start chatting' and chat to our Drupal site.
In this post, we will show the pain points of running Xdebug in a Docker local development environment and how we overcame them.
When you are working with a team of developers on a medium to large sized project, managing the changes between a number of git branches can become a complex task. Sometimes you don't want to merge a whole branch into another, and only need to pick one or two specific commits. This process is called 'cherry picking'.
We're starting up our Lightning talks again during our weekly developer meetings here at PreviousNext. This week was about wiring up a straight forward plugin.js and extending CKEditorPluginBase to create a custom CKEditor widget in Drupal 8.
Watch the video for a run through of how this is done in Drupal 8.
This post chronicles our adventure of implementing (and migrating) our Kubernetes storage provisioning from FlexVolumes to Third Party Resources to Storage Classes.