Issue 354 - August, 30th 2018

As promised I've highlighted some of the sessions from Decoupled Drupal Days in this week's video section. I highly recommend you check out the site. All the sessions were recorded and are posted on the web site.

News

Drupal Europe Sep 10-14

Don't miss Drupal Europe. With 162 hours of sessions, 9 in-depth workshops, 3 training courses, contribution opportunities and meeting key members of the community, you aren't going to want to miss it.

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Articles

5 New Features You'll See in Drupal 8.6

Early Rendering: A Lesson in Debugging Drupal 8

Examples of Using Laravel Collections in Drupal

How NLP & Drupal Can Be Combined to Provide the Best User Experience

Upgrading Acquia.com from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8: The Developer Perspective

Managing Shared Configuration Part 1: Configuration Providers

Null Users and System Users in Drupal

The Inspiration of Our Blockchain Panel: – Drupal Europe

Tutorials

Deploying Docker Containers - Introduction to Kubernetes

Drupal CLI: Drush and Drupal Console

Experimenting with Events in Drupal 8

How to Set Up Dropdown Menus in Drupal 8

How to Use Search API Solr Search in Drupal 8

Quick Tip: Generating a Hash Salt for Drupal 8

Projects

Drupal Module Spotlight: Reroute Email

Releases

Jsonapi 8.x-2.0-Beta1

jsonapi_extras 8.x-2.8

Video

Decoupled Drupal + Gatsby - Decoupled Drupal Days

Effective API Caching: Achieving High Hit Rates When Your Client Is a Decoupled Front-End

I personally learned a lot in this session about how you can use HTTP and reverse proxy caching to improve performance.

Server-Side Rendering Best Practices: How We Run Decoupled Websites with 110 Million Hits Per Month

A deep dive into how Amazee.io hosting works and the architecture behind scaling a decoupled site.

Serverless, Well Actually... - Decoupled Drupal Days

Not to toot my own horn, but if you wanna get up to speed on the topic of Serverless this video is for you. I also talk a bit about the plumbing behind writing TheWeeklyDrop.