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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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Assets in Drupal

Assets are a specific type of digital content. Consider reading about a researcher online. When viewing their biography on a University website, an image shows a picture of them, a list of their publications, which are linked to PDF files, and a video of their latest conference talk is featured. These are all assets.

Assets are a vibrant part of the modern web. Social platforms such as Instagram and YouTube are built around images and videos. The emergence of cameras and cell phones has made digital assets ubiquitous. As such, assets are a large part of digital applications. And, assets are a significant part of Drupal.

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Assets are one part of the longstanding “trifecta” of Drupal: code, database, and files. Files take on two forms: assets and generated files. Configuration, as an example, is generated by the Drupal application, managed by the runtime database, and persistently stored in files for versioning. Drupal’s caching...

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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