Delivering a multi-site, multilingual decoupled Drupal project in record time

Delivering a multi-site, multilingual decoupled Drupal project in record time axelerant.com 1

Hello! Piyush Poddar Head of Partnerships and Sales Jaipur, India axelerant.com 2

Agenda ● Business case ○ ● Technical ○ ● Challenges and Resolutions Challenges and Resolutions Q&A axelerant.com 3

Client Wunderman Thompson is a leading digital agency with 200 oﬃces in 70 countries and member of international advertising group, WPP. They help achieve impactful results for some of the biggest brands around. Project Development of multiple websites for one of their leading hospitality customers with multiple luxury resort properties throughout Asia. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the client has a large international audience. axelerant.com 4

Challenge - Content Management System ● Content Authoring process highly unorganised and unstructured ● Content Sprawl across multiple brands ● Site visitors spoke multiple languages ( English, Arabic, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, Greek ) ● API friendly platform axelerant.com 5

Challenge - Content Management System ● Content Authoring process highly unorganised and unstructured ● Content Sprawl across multiple brands ● Site visitors spoke multiple languages ( English, Arabic, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, Greek ) ● API friendly platform axelerant.com 6

Challenge - Multiple Brands ● They needed to address multiple geographies. ● Their different brands needed to be unified in order to establish a common back-end with multilingual versions. axelerant.com 7

Challenge - Multiple Brands ● They needed to address multiple geographies. ● Their different brands needed to be unified in order to establish a common back-end with multilingual versions. axelerant.com 8

Challenge - Platform ● ● Huge amount of traﬃc ○ Performance ○ Scalability ○ Financial Security axelerant.com 9

Challenge - Platform ● ● Huge amount of traﬃc ○ Performance ○ Scalability ○ Financial Headless Drupal with Acquia Site Factory (ACSF) Security axelerant.com 10

Challenge - China ● The Chinese audience was tremendously important and the solution needed to make their websites accessible within the country as much as to outside world. ● Great Firewall of China Great Firewall of China axelerant.com 11

Challenge - China Image Assets Acquia Servers (Sit Factory) Client’s editorial staff Aliyun CDN Aliyun OSS Decoupled Drupal Aliyun API Gateway Aliyun Function Compute axelerant.com 12

Challenge - Delivery & Timeline ● Ambitious delivery timeline ( 3 months ) ● Requirement clarity concerns ● Risk spiking needing frequent experimentation and validation. AGILE DECOUPLED TEAMS REMOTE WORK CULTURE axelerant.com 13

Challenge - Multiple Stakeholders ● Shared code repository with multiple stakeholders dilute our authority to maintain coding standards and quality ● Lack of a standard communication and information strategy across all Multiple stakeholders ● Accessibility inconvenience and additional overhead due to the use of virtual desktop infrastructure axelerant.com 14

Challenge - Multiple Stakeholders ● Shared code repository with multiple stakeholders dilute our authority to maintain coding standards and quality ● Lack of a standard communication and information strategy across all Multiple stakeholders ● Accessibility inconvenience and additional overhead due to the use of virtual desktop infrastructure axelerant.com 15