DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014: A real life study of large scaled personalization with Drupal

In this talk, the speaker from Actency discusses the implementation of a large extranet for a client using Drupal. The session focuses on how the technical team defined complex business rules for user profiles, allowing for extensive customization of every page element. The speaker highlights the use of a user-centric access system to manage visibility for over 80,000 profiles and emphasizes the importance of security through Drupal's node-access system. Performance is also addressed, with the implementation delivering complex pages with personalized content in under two seconds, utilizing the Queue-API and Organic Groups for scalability. Attendees will gain insights into managing extensive databases, including lessons learned from handling tables with over 200 million entries, as well as the overarching architecture and module configurations involved in the project.