{"384361":{"#nid":"384361","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Atlanta Drupal (ADUG) March Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMeeting of the awesome local Drupal group you always wanted to attend - now ON CAMPUS each 2nd Thursday!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EFree Parking\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnderneath the Wardlaw building, see \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/drupal.gatech.edu\/adug\u0022\u003Edetailed directions\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on our GT Drupal site.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EMeeting Details\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVisit the ADUG meetup site for \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/drupalatlanta\/events\/220505938\/\u0022\u003Emore information on this month\u0027s meeting\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EPresentation Description (copied from ADUG):\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Weather Channel (TWC)\u0026nbsp;has one of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.weather.com\/\u0022\u003Emost highly visited Drupal web sites\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the world.\u0026nbsp;Join James Rutherford from Atlanta\u2019s Mediacurrent to gain insight into the architectural decisions that allowed Mediacurrent to address this complex site\u2019s requirements.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn how Mediacurrent and TWC to worked together to understand and tackle the many engineering challenges that arose.\u0026nbsp;The Weather Channel\u2019s migration to Drupal included both addressing editorial concerns and replacing legacy systems and taking over the front end serving.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESee it in action at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.weather.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.weather.com\/.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou\u2019ll hear about the pain points that TWC was experiencing before the conversion:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp; With over 2 million locations with unique forecasts cache, efficiency was low.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;Feature velocity was a challenge as requirements sometimes change quickly\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;Too many hurdles in the current platform to content generation\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;Too many legacy platforms to support\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd you\u2019ll learn about innovations created within the Drupal framework to support TWC:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp; Presentation framework allows independent teams to create flexible widgets that can vary in presentation based on the consuming device (ESI, native, inline or AngularJS)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;How mobile has become a hub that supports the mobile apps\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;How the content workflow is write once use many places\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;Highly leveraging ESI and a novel routing concept to increase cache efficiency\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Gather with other Drupal users to share fun and know-how."}],"uid":"27572","created_gmt":"2015-03-04 15:45:42","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:52","author":"Kim MacLeod","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-12T19:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-12T21:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-12T21:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-12 23:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-13 01:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-13 01:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/drupalatlanta\/","title":"ADUG page on Meetup.com"},{"url":"http:\/\/drupal.gatech.edu\/adug","title":"GT Drupal directions for ADUG"}],"groups":[{"id":"325151","name":"GT Drupal Users Group"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}