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Today we are talking about Our Favorite things and The Future of Drupal with guest Jared Ponchot & Dave Hansen-Lange.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/495

Topics

• What has piqued your interest
• AI creating components
• Any other new features or demos
• What haven’t you seen that you hope to
• How do you feel about the future of Drupal

Resources

• Driesnote

Guests

Dave Hansen-Lange – linkedin.com dalin Jared Ponchot – lullabot.com jponch

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu Andrew Berry – lullabot.com deviantintegral

PostgreSQL is, without a doubt, one of the most popular open source databases in the world. Why? Well, there are many reasons, but if I had to pick just one, I’d say it’s extensibility. PostgreSQL isn’t just a database; it’s an ecosystem of extensions that can transform it to tackle any upcoming challenges. By enabling […]

Everyone knows that MongoDB has FTDC (Full-Time Diagnostic Data Capture), which helps MongoDB engineers analyze server behavior, tune parameters, and conduct forensic work when issues occur within their clusters. Here at Percona, we’ve been using the Keyhole tool for a while, and it’s great! It’s very useful for tuning parameters or analyzing what happened at […]

Today we are talking about AI in EDU, how it can provide efficiencies, and how you might start using it today with guests Brian Piper & Mike Miles . We’ll also cover External Entities as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/494

Topics

• How are you using AI with your team at Rochester
• How are you using AI with your team at MIT
• What are the AI policies at your institutions
• On the ingestion side how do you manage consumption
• Tips and tricks to incorporate AI into your work
• Can you talk more about using AI to distribute content outside the web
• Do you have tips for managers
• How have you seen EDUs using AI other than as assistive technology
• What are your favorite tools
• Have you done adversarial testing
• How does AI in Drupal impact EDU
• Where do you see AI in EDU in the future

Resources

• Crawler rate limit
• Externalizing costs
• AI for U
• MidCamp 2024 session about YaleSites
• Tools
  • Element 451
  • Builder io
  • Deque Axe Devtools
  • Descript
  • Opus clips
  • Kapwing
  • HeyGen
  • Synthesia
  • Text to video
    • Sora
    • Veo

Guests

Brian Piper – brianwpiper.com Mike Miles – Mike-miles.com mikemiles86

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Andrew Berry – lullabot.com deviantintegral

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to connect your Drupal website to an external data source, to include their datasets into the presentation of your Drupal-managed content? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • External Entities
• Brief history
  • How old: created in May 2015 by attiks, though the most recent release is by Colan Schwartz (colan), a fellow Canadian
  • Versions available: 8.x-2.0-beta1 and 3.0.0-beta4, the latter of which supports Drupal 10 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release was less than a month ago
  • Security coverage (though technically needs a stable release
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation: user guide
  • Number of open issues: 77 open issues, 3 of which are bugs against the 3.x branch, though one is marked fixed now
• Usage stats:
  • 679 sites
• Module features and usage
  • The External Entities module lets you map fields from external data sources to fields on a “virtual” entity in Drupal. This allows for external data to be used with Drupal’s powerful features like Views, Entity Queries, or Search API as well as use your local Drupal site’s theme to theme data from an external source
  • The module does provide a time-based caching layer for external entities, but you can also implement a more custom cache expiration logic through custom code
  • External entities can also have annotations, essentially Drupal-managed information that will be associated with the external entity, and accessed as a normal field through all Drupal field operations. This could allow you to have Drupal-based comments on information from a different website, for example
  • There is a sizeable ecosystem of companion modules, to help you connect to different kinds of external storage, as to help you aggregate data from multiple sources
  • In my Drupal career I’ve worked on a number of higher ed websites, and the ability to display externally-managed data is a pretty common requirement, either from an HRIS system to show staff and faculty data, or a courseware solution like Banner. I thought this would be an interesting tangent to today’s topic

When performing backups, reducing the amount of time your server is locked can significantly improve performance and minimize disruptions. Percona XtraBackup 8.4 Pro introduces improvements in how DDL (Data Definition Language) locks (aka Backup Locks) are managed, allowing for reduced locking during backups. In this post, we’ll explore the impact of these enhancements. TL;DR (Summary) […]

At Percona, we’re committed to providing you with the best database monitoring and management tools. With the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 3 (PMM 3), we’re now entering a critical phase in the lifecycle of PMM 2. We understand that PMM 2 remains a vital tool for many of our users, and we want […]

If you’re running enterprise applications, you might be facing a common dilemma: cloud solutions offer great features, but regulatory constraints and data sovereignty laws might prevent you from using them fully. In fact, about 60% of enterprises struggle with this exact problem. While cloud computing delivers scalability and convenience, your organization might require on-premises or […]

From punch cards to containerization, database technologies have changed tremendously over the years. And there has been no shortage of watershed moments along the way. However, we believe the emergence of advanced AI may very well be the most significant one yet.  Percona certainly isn’t alone in that belief. But, when it comes to the […]

Today we are talking about The Drupal Developer Survey, Last year’s results, and How it helps Drupal with guest Mike Richardson. We’ll also cover HTMX as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/493

Topics

• What is the Drupal Developer Survey
• How often does it come out
• How did it come to be
• What type of information does it collect
• Do you look at other surveys
• What were some of the most interesting stats last year
• Core contributors
• How do you expect last year to compare to this year
• Do you think the outlook will be more positive with Drupal CMS
• Drop off in Drupal 7
• Home users
• DDEV usage
• AI questions
• Security questions

Resources

• Drupal Developer Survey 2024 Results
• 2025 Drupal Developer Survey
• HTMX Sucks

Guests

Mike Richardson – Ironstar Dev Survey richo_au

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Andrew Berry – lullabot.com deviantintegral

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to replace Drupal’s AJAX capabilities with a lightweight library that has no additional dependencies? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • HTMX
• Brief history
  • How old: created in May 2023 by wouters_f though recent releases are by fathershawn of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Versions available: 1.3.5 and 1.4.0, both of which support Drupal 10.3 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release less than a month ago
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation included in the repo as well as online
  • Number of open issues: 3 open issues, 1 of which is a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 92 sites
• Module features and usage
  • To use HTMX, you need to attach the library to the render array of one or more elements where you want to use it, and then add data attributes to your render array that indicate how you want HTMX to react to user behaviour
  • HTMX can help make your Drupal sites more interactive by dynamically loading or reloading parts of a page, giving it a more “application-like” user experience
  • There is a planning issue to discuss gradually replace Drupal’s current AJAX system with HTMX, and a related Proof Of Concept showing how that could work with an existing Drupal admin form
  • A number of elements in the current AJAX system also rely on jQuery, so adopting HTMX would also help to phase out jQuery in core. HTMX is also significantly more lightweight than JS frameworks like React
  • HTMX is really a developer-oriented project, which is why I thought it would be appropriate for this week’s episode

In this blog, we will look at the differences between LTS (Long Term Stable) versions of Percona Server for MySQL. Released in April 2019, MySQL 8.0 represented a major change from the previous version, 5.7, introducing significant changes to the data dictionary and enabling many features and enhancements. It also provided no direct downgrade path, […]