About this talk
This talk provides a comprehensive overview of the improved render pipeline in Drupal 8, highlighting key enhancements such as automatic render caching for blocks and entities, and an effective cache invalidation system using cache tags. The speaker explains how asset dependencies optimize the loading of necessary assets and how the new bubbling approach eliminates the issues caused by global statics in caching. Additionally, the session covers the future capabilities in Drupal 8, including precise invalidation for Varnish/CDNs during anonymous page loads and the ability to assemble authenticated page loads from cached components. Comparisons with Drupal 7 illustrate how developers can write code today that is easily upgradeable to Drupal 8, as well as mentioning existing backports like Big Pipe.
