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Living a Nightmare, Dreaming a Dream A Drupal Deployment Dilemma SATURN Conference, April 2015 Gail E. Harris gharris@tvo.org Director & Architect, Web and Mobile Delivery About TVO "use electronic and associated media to provide

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Living a Nightmare, Dreaming a Dream

A Drupal Deployment Dilemma SATURN Conference, April 2015

Gail E. Harris gharris@tvo.org Director & Architect, Web and Mobile Delivery

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About TVO

"use electronic and associated media to provide educational opportunities for all people in Ontario"

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Analysis

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The Dream

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Automated Tests

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Coding Practices

  • Content Management

System

  • Can configure with a

"point and click" GUI

  • Templates to build web

pages for delivery through web server (apache)

  • Includes page authoring

and editorial workflow capabilities

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Continuous Delivery

  • Load Balancers
  • Web Servers
  • Databases

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Culture Dilemma

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Crucial Executive Support

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Culture Changes

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  • System as a composition of components
  • "Structural issues include the gross organization and

global control structures; the protocols for communication, synchronization, and data access; the assignment of functionality to design elements; physical distribution; composition of design elements; scaling and performance; dimensions of evolution; and selection among design alternatives. "

  • Garlan, Shaw: 1994

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Architecture is about…

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Lessons Learned

  • Maintainability driving

Architecture decisions

  • Architecture decisions

driving changes in work habits

  • Need for work habit

changes driving recruiting and organizational structure decisions

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  • Could these changes have been done incrementally?
  • How would this work in another organization where the

architect and manager roles are separate?

  • How to take better advantage of the tight coupling of
  • rganization structure changes with motivational changes?
  • The surprise: technology choice matters least of all

Discussion

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