How Elevated Third, Hoorooh, and Acquia worked together to create a decoupled site for the Powdr Resorts, one of the largest ski operators in North America
Part 1: Setting the Stage: Hosting a Decoupled Drupal site.
Powdr Ski Resorts was facing a familiar challenge: the web sites in their network of ski resorts were on a collection of disparate content management systems, which made it difficult to govern their digital properties across multiple brands and sites.…
In this two-part series of blog posts, I'm going to show you how we built a Drupal 8 photo gallery site, integrated with Amazon S3, Rekognition, and Lambda to automatically detect faces (allowing us to automatically identify names!) and objects found in our photos.
Acquia Build Week
Every year, Acquia puts on Build Week, a week-long event where Acquia's engineering teams (along with other departments, like OCTO, Professional Services, and more!) come together to…
With budget cuts and rising expectations, higher education websites have become a challenging balancing act of function and affordability.
As one of the main marketing tools to prospective students, higher ed websites increasingly need to do it all.
They have to be responsive, accessible, easily navigated, support the brand, contain large bodies of complex content that often require custom functionality not standard in CMSes, and be future-proof enough to last 5-7…
One of the more interesting products to hit the spotlight at this year's Percona Live Open Source Database conference was ProxySQL.
This open source MySQL proxy server has been around for a couple of years now and keeps adding more features. The current release (1.3.6) has the usual features that you would expect from a proxy server, like load balancing and failover support, but ProxySQL also has database specific features like a query cache and query routing.
The…
