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Adam Bergstein
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Adam Bergstein

Adam Bergstein is a product engineering leader and an architect. He has been a long-time Drupal community member, a routine speaker at Drupal community events around the globe, and provided keynotes for several events. He has maintained and contributed to many Drupal projects, including Password Policy, Taxonomy Menu, and more. Adam is the lead of Simplytest, a free service, and a project that offers Drupal community members testing sandboxes. He has also worked for both agencies building Drupal applications and Drupal service providers building Drupal-related products. He has led the Drupal Community Governance Task Force and is serving a term as a community board member of the Drupal Association.
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Drupal management and operations

Often people joke that Drupal is free “like a puppy.” While the software is made available for free through the open-source community, it takes work to build your application and subsequently maintain and operate it. It can be as basic as performing routine code updates, or it may involve complex concepts, such as staged code workflows and automated deployment processes. This section provides approaches and considerations for maintenance and operations for a Drupal application.

Maintenance

Drupal runs at the top of a technology stack, but thoughtful maintenance includes keeping the full stack up to date. Updates apply at all levels of the operating system (OS), packages running on the OS, the web server, the database server, and more. PHP commonly runs as a package of the OS and is configured on the web server. Any update in the stack can introduce new or updated configurations that should be carefully managed because they may not...

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Published in: Dec 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837633104

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Adam Bergstein

Adam Bergstein is a product engineering leader and an architect. He has been a long-time Drupal community member, a routine speaker at Drupal community events around the globe, and provided keynotes for several events. He has maintained and contributed to many Drupal projects, including Password Policy, Taxonomy Menu, and more. Adam is the lead of Simplytest, a free service, and a project that offers Drupal community members testing sandboxes. He has also worked for both agencies building Drupal applications and Drupal service providers building Drupal-related products. He has led the Drupal Community Governance Task Force and is serving a term as a community board member of the Drupal Association.
Read more about Adam Bergstein