Today we are talking about Data Lakes with Melissa Bent & April Sides.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/409

Topics

• What is a data lake
• Does it have to be NoSQL
• How do organizations use data lake
• How does RedHat use the data lake
• How do you maintain it
• How do you make changes to the data lake
• Who manages Mongo
• How big does it have to be to be considered a data lake
• Why not Solr
• What Drupal modules
• Communication of changes
• Gotchas?

Resources

• Create an Animated GIF From Video On A Mac
• Drupal modules
  • External data source
  • Allow Only One
  • Pattern Kit
  • Search api
  • Mongodb
  • Entity Browser
  • Mongodb Data Lake (Indexing module)
• Presentation
• Where is this used?
  • https://access.redhat.com/products
  • https://developers.redhat.com/learn
  • https://cloud.redhat.com/learn
• Rendered issue
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/issues/3274158
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3220172

Guests

Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka
April Sides - weekbeforenext

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - timplunkett

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Tagify

• Brief description:
  • Provides an entity reference widget that’s more user friendly: visually styles as tags (without showing the reference ID), drag to sort, and more
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2023
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.19, which works wth Drupal >8.8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release in the past week
• Number of open issues:
  • 4, one of which is a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 177 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • gxleano (David Galeano), who I got to meet in person at Drupal Dev Days
• Module features and usage
  • Tagify is a popular JS library, so this module is a Drupal integration for that
  • Features in the module include deactivating labels when the field’s max number of entries has been reached, allowing the creation of new tags when the field has been configured to allow that, and so on
  • Will automatically disallow duplicate tags
  • Includes a User List submodule specifically for user reference fields, which also shows the user’s profile pic in the tag
  • Project page has animated GIFs that demonstrate how many of these features work
  • A module I started using on my own blog, nice and simple UX. I could see the drag to sort be really useful, for example if you wanted the first term reference to be used in a pathauto pattern

Today we are talking about The Drupal Association with Tim Doyle.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/408

Topics

• Tell us about yourself Tim
• Why Drupal
• What perspective do you bring
• Strategic plan
• Leadership
• Measurements
• Drupal the project vs Drupal the community
• Where will the DA be in 5 years
• Will Drupal be around in 20 years
• Favorite aspect of the strategic plan

Resources

• Director of Philanthropy
• Burnout
• Pitch-burgh
• Alex Moreno
• New Core Product Manager
  • Lauri Eskola (lauriii)
• Tenure of ED/CEOs since formation of DA
  • Jacob Redding
    • March 2010 - February 2013
    • ~3 years
  • Holly Ross
    • February 2013 - May 2016
    • 3 years 3 months
  • Megan Sanicki
    • May 2016 - September 2018
    • 1½ years
  • (interim) Tim Lehnen
    • September 2018 - June 2019
    • 9 months
  • Heather Rocker
    • June 2019 - March 2022
    • 2 years 9 months
  • (interim) Angie Sabin
    • March 2022 - October 2022
    • 8 months
  • Tim Doyle
    • October 2022 - Present (July 2023)
    • 9 months
  • As of February 2026 Tim will be longest-tenured

Guests

Tim Doyle - @TimDoyleMPA

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ActivityPub

• Brief description:
  • Implements the ActivityPub protocol on your site, so readers can follow and respond to content on Fediverse sites like Mastodon, and in the future maybe Threads?
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2019
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.0-alpha17, works with Drupal 9.4 and 10, release in Mar 2023
• Actively maintained
• Minimally maintained
• Number of open issues:
  • 43 open issues, only 2 bugs but 1 of those fixed in the past week
• Usage stats:
  • 11 sites using it according to drupal.org
• Maintainer(s):
  • Created and maintained by swentel, who also created a module for publishing Drupal content to the Nostr network
• Module features and usage
  • Effectively allows your site to act as a Fediverse server: Mastodon, Pleroma, Picelfed, etc.
  • Users who enable ActivityPub for their account have created @user@domain in the Fediverse
  • At that point the Drupal UI provides some common features of a social client: notifications about subscribers, and so on
  • Provides plugins to define user actions. Default plugins are ‘Accept’, ‘Follow’, ‘Delete’, ‘Undo’ and ‘Inbox reply’, but a site could add or enable others
  • Based on the documentation it sounds like if you update an entity (e.g. change the title) you can trigger an Update activity, which is in stark contrast to a certain bird platform
  • There’s quite a bit more in the module’s README file if anyone wants to better understand its capabilities

Today we are talking about How to improve Drupal Search with Sean Walsh.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/407

Topics

• Drupal core search improvement
• External search backends
  • Database
  • Solr
  • Elasticsearch
  • Opensearch
  • Algolia
  • SearchStax
• Common Modules
  • Facets
  • Search API Autocomplete
  • Search API Exclude
• Improve search for users
• Segmented vs Unified search
• A11y tips
• Common pitfalls

Resources

• Search api solr boost by term
• Search exclude
• Search api autocomplete
• Facets
• Database
• Solr
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr
  • https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html
• ElasticSearch
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/elasticsearch_search_api
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/elasticsearch_connector/
  • https://www.elastic.co/
• OpenSearch
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_opensearch
  • https://opensearch.org/
• Algolia
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_algolia
  • https://www.algolia.com
• SearchStax
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/searchstax
  • https://www.searchstax.com
• Issues for rendered html
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3220172
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/issues/3274158

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ECA Commerce
Provides events to the ECA module from all of the commerce core and submodules.

Today we are talking about The Drupal 10 Development Cookbook with Kevin Quillen & Matt Glaman.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/406

Topics

• What is the Drupal 10 Development Cookbook
  • Contrast with Selwyn Polit’s Drupal At Your Fingertips
• Who is the book for
• How much experience to start
• What should a reader expect to get out of reading the book
• Core or contrib
• Why write the book
• Book writing process
• Co-writing
• Why a physical book
  • Is there a digital copy
  • Does it get updated
• How long did it take to write
  • How did you write it
• How did you break Drupal down to 14 chapters
• Most surprising thing you had to research
• Are you or the publisher going to translate the book
• Would you write another book
• Where is the best place to get the book

Resources

• Drupal 10 Development Cookbook (Amazon)
• Drupal 10.1 Change Records
• Single Directory Components DrupalCon Session
• Blog post about checkbox
  • https://herchel.com/articles/disabling-twig-caching-just-got-helluva-lotta-easier-101
  • https://mglaman.dev/blog/simplifying-frontend-developer-experience-drupal-click-butto
• Talking Drupal #398 - Drupal At Your Fingertips Book
• Driesnote (time stamp 42:30)

Guests

Kevin Quillen - @kevinquillen
Matt Glaman- @nmdmatt

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Drupal 10.1
The module of the week this week is “Drupal 10.1"