Drupal 8 is here and we couldn’t be more excited! Drupal 8 has over 200 new features and improvements, redefining ease of use and creating even more ways to personalize and deploy your content. We could go on for days about the new improvements, but we want to hear from you. With all of the exciting changes, there’s bound to be a burning question or two. Come join us for an “Ask All, Tell All” Q&A session on all things Drupal 8 with Drupal’s founder himself, Dries Buytaert, and his superstar team. We’ll be taking pre-submitted questions to ensure your voice is heard. Submit your questions here and we’ll answer them in this live one-hour session. Drupal 8 has something for everyone to love — we sure love it, and know you will, too!

1. Ask Us Anything:
Dries Buytaert and Team Tell All on Drupal 8
Dries Buytaert
Drupal Founder and Drupal Project Lead
Co-Founder and CTO, Acquia
Angie “Webchick” Byron
Director of Community Development, Acquia
Alex Bronstein
Principal Engineer, Acquia
Wim Leers
Senior Engineer, Acquia

2. Our Drupal 8 Experts
Dries Buytaert
Drupal Founder and Project Lead
Co-Founder and CTO of Acquia
Angie “Webchick” Byron
Director of Community Development at Acquia
Alex Bronstein
Principal Engineer at Acquia
Wim Leers
Senior Engineer at Acquia

4. Drupal 8 (D8) is a digital
experience platform for
managing content and
experiences across channels
and devices, to support a new
era of personalized, multichannel
engagement.
Drupal 8 released on November 19

5. Drupal 8’s reach: 1 night, 240 parties

6. Drupal 8 by the numbers
→ New architecture
→ 200+ new features
→ More capabilities in Drupal core
→ 1.5M lines of code
→ 3,000+ global contributors
More than 100 Acquia employees
contributed to D8
No other organization in the world has more
Drupal experts and core contributors.

7. D8 is the DXP the world has been waiting for
The world is moving from this... ...to this
Websites & web content Multichannel, digital experiences
Browser-based Any browser, screen, device, application
Everyone sees the same content Personal, contextual experiences
“Pull” content (browse, read) “Push” content for real-time interaction
Back-end tied to front-end delivery Decoupled architecture for flexible delivery

8. Who’s Using D8 + Acquia?
CH2M (Fortune 500) $6B global engineering
firm on D8 & Acquia Platform
Manhattan Associates supply-chain software
leader on D8 & Acquia Platform

9. What’s New in D8? A lot.
Here are some highlights...

10. → Fast and fun content authoring
▪ D8 reimagines content authoring usability.
▪ WYSIWYG & in-place editing for fast, easy authoring
→ Mobile first, mobile everywhere
▪ Entire D8 interface is responsive. Edit/approve on any device
▪ Previews to see content-in-context on mobile devices
→ Multi-lingual focus
▪ D8 has extensive support for multilingual content & translations
▪ D8 interface is translated into more than 100 languages
→More available out of the box
▪ Views, improved blocks, more field types
For Users and Site Builders

11. → Configuration management
▪ Drupal is well-known for its deep configurability. With D8, all of that configuration can be
managed in git (or other vcs), and deployed across site environments (dev, stage, prod).
▪ Built-in dependency management and language translation. API support for contrib to add
other popular capabilities (Features, Domain, ...) that were hard in prior versions.
→ OOP & Entity API & Plugin API
▪ Many disparate APIs unified: "learn once, apply anywhere"
▪ Built-in REST module. API support for contrib alternatives (Services, RESTWS, GraphQL).
→ Performance & Caching
▪ D8 more easily handles highly dynamic websites thanks to cache dependency tracking
▪ This “cacheability metadata” enables much smarter caching (BigPipe, ESI…)
For Developers

12. Drupal 8 Open Q&A
Please submit your questions at any time
throughout the webinar in the Q&A box.
We will answer on a first come, first serve basis. We will start
with pre-submitted questions.
If you have any additional questions, please email
marketing@acquia.com

13. Extra slides below;
hold these here

14. New in Drupal 8
→New architecture makes it easier to develop & extend capabilities
→Modern PHP standards opens up adoption to more developers
→Dynamic content caching enables faster personalized experiences
→‘Big Pipe’ capability gives every Drupal site Facebook-like fast page loading
→Pervasive APIs allow organizations to harness the API economy
→Responsive experience for authors & visitors delivers multi-channel consistency
→Supports decoupled content delivery model enabling JS front-end development

15. Fast. Fun. Beautiful. Authoring in D8
Re-imagined content
authoring experience
→ In-line, in-context
editing on page
→ WYSIWYG tools
→ Focus on usability for
everyone in D8

16. D8 is 100% Responsive
100% Mobile-first CMS for a
post-browser world
→ D8’s user interface is 100%
responsive (front-end and
back-end)
→ Manage and approve
content using any device

17. Content as a Service in D8
Content delivery for any
channel or screen.
→ RESTful web service APIs in
D8 core for content flexibility
→ Deliver content as a service
to any site, application,
channel, device.
→ Pull content into D8 sites
and applications from any
source

18. D8 is a Developer’s Dream
D8 makes life easier for Drupal
front-end and back-end devs
→ Symfony2 framework for
easier PHP development
→ Twig theming engine built into
D8 streamlines theming
→ D8 ships with modern front-
end libraries
→ Easier configuration
management & unit testing

19. Translation and Localization in D8
Built from the ground up to
support multilingual sites
→Built-in tools streamline
translation & localization
process for global content
→D8’s UI is translated into
many languages
(more on the way)