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Adam Bergstein
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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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Images represent a specific type of file and more specific functionality. Images build those specific features by leveraging files for all of the foundational asset-related functionality, such as CRUD. It also adds image-specific metadata, such as fields for alternate text, which is helpful for accessibility. Drupal may have content that links to a PDF or Word document that was created outside of Drupal. However, web browsers have native support for images of various formats. Given that Drupal serves content for the web, it offers more advanced image-related features beyond simple file linking, which is useful for rendering images and transforming images as part of its content management capabilities.

The responsive web adds more demands on content management systems to ensure images are appropriately delivered to different devices. Some images can be rather large in file size. Imagine the earlier days of cellular networks trying to download a large image on a web page. Content...

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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