DrupalCon Austin 2014: MIGRATING THE WORLDS LARGEST WEBSITE ONTO DRUPAL - WEATHER.COM

This talk features Jason Smith from Mediacurrent and Chris Hill from The Weather Channel, focusing on the architectural strategies used to enhance one of the world's most visited websites, weather.com, which operates on the Drupal platform. The session explores the two-phase strategy implemented to resolve editorial issues and modernize legacy systems, while addressing significant engineering challenges. Key topics include improving cache efficiency for over two million unique forecasts, strategies to increase feature velocity amidst changing requirements, and innovations within the Drupal framework, such as a presentation framework for flexible content display and enhanced mobile app support. The speakers also discuss a content workflow strategy that maximizes reuse and leverages Edge Side Includes (ESI) for better performance.