DrupalCon Prague 2013: BUILDING AND DEPLOING MEDIASALSA, A DAM AS A SERVICE

This talk explores the journey of developing MediaSalsa, a SaaS version of MediaMosa, a multimedia-focused Drupal distribution for building open-source digital asset management platforms. The speaker shares insights gathered from a year of experience in adopting distributed DevOps practices among teams in the Netherlands, Kiev, and Belgium. Key topics include automated Drupal deployments, continuous integration, and Infrastructure as Code, highlighting both successes and challenges, including DNS issues. The speaker discusses the evolution of their processes, including the creation and measurement of dashboards, platform behavior, and the use of tools like ffmpeg and mcollective to optimize their workflows.