TD Cafe #016 - Understanding Drupal Caching with Matt and Nic
Talking Drupal
Nic Laflin and Matt Glaman sit down to discuss Drupal caching and Matt’s new Leanpub book, Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers. For show notes visit: Topics New Book on Caching Why Drupal Caching Shines Cache Tags Explained Cache Context Variations What Caching Really Is Invalidation Across the Stack NGINX Layer Pitfalls What Drupal Can Cache Writing Cacheable Render Arrays Debugging Metadata Issues Testing Caching Strategies Researching the Book Variation Cache Deep Dive Access Policy and Performance Permissions Caching and Disk IO Extension Discovery Tangent File...
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Talking Drupal #551 - Drupal Recording Initiative
Talking Drupal
Kevin Thull, who leads the Drupal Recording Initiative (DRI), joins us to discuss why DRI started, how it scaled from Kevin recording local camps to supporting many events, the hub-and-mentorship model for maintainers, differences between shipping kits vs onsite support, costs compared with traditional AV vendors, and challenges like aging capture hardware, audio/video troubleshooting, and sustainable funding. For show notes visit: Topics Module of the Week TFA Why Recording Matters Early Events and Growing Pains Post Production and Gear Limits Recording DrupalCon vs Camps Costs and Value...
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Talking Drupal #550 - The Future of Site Builders
Talking Drupal
In episode 550 of Talking Drupal, Rod Martin joins us to discuss how Drupal site builders are defined, how their role has changed across Drupal versions, and what the future may look like with Drupal CMS, Canvas, and Drupal AI. The show’s module of the week is Password Policy, presented by Avi Schwab, covering customizable password constraints and password expiration/reset features, along with supporting modules Password Policy Extras and Password Policy Pwned, which checks passwords against the Have I Been Pwned database. The conversation also explores the challenges site builders face...
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Talking Drupal #549 - Catching up with the DDEV Team
Talking Drupal
In Episode 549, Randy Fay and Stas Zhuk join us to discuss what DDEV is, recent improvements, and where it’s headed. Module of the week is the DDEV Drupal Contrib add-on. Randy and Stas discuss priorities like reliability, consistent UX, add-ons discoverability, and new features including revamped ddev share with Cloudflare and rootless Podman support. They also cover , a cloud-based DDEV environment built on for easier onboarding and contribution, plus sustainability, community support, and challenges such as AI-driven PR volume and Stas’s development constraints in Ukraine. For show...
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Talking Drupal #548 - How to build your own CRM
Talking Drupal
In episode 548 we welcome back JD Leonard to discuss what CRMs are, what problems they solve, and which organizations benefit from them. JD explains why Drupal CRM defines CRM as “Contact Relationship Management,” outlines core expectations like contact and relationship tracking and integrations, and describes Drupal CRM’s Drupal-native architecture using dedicated, fieldable entity types for contacts, relationships, and contact methods. The panel compares Drupal CRM to older Drupal CRM efforts and user-based approaches, covers security considerations for PII and plans for field...
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Talking Drupal #547 - Why Developers Don't Choose Drupal
Talking Drupal
In episode #547, guest JD Flynn joins us to discuss why developers don’t choose Drupal, focusing on Drupal adoption, discoverability, and outdated perceptions from Drupal 6/7. JD cites survey data showing low interest among non-Drupal developers, arguing Drupal’s biggest problem is invisibility and that developers often pre-filter it due to PHP stigma and friction getting started. For show notes visit: Topics Welcome to Talking Drupal Meet JD Flynn Co Hosts Introductions Module of the Week: Native Observability Production Overhead Debate AI Patches and Etiquette Live Stream and Topic...
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Talking Drupal #546 - DrupalCon Chicago
Talking Drupal
Live from DrupalCon Chicago, Nic Laflin is joined by Tim Plunkett, Steve Wirt, Martin Anderson-Clutz, and John Picozzi to discuss the event’s tone, Dries Notes and key themes including Drupal Canvas, Drupal AI, and new site templates/marketplace progress and more. For show notes visit: Topics Reconnecting With Community Must See Sessions Vibe And Starshot Attendance And Venue Community Party Returns Dries Note and AI Debate Roadmap And Templates Recipes And Exports AI In Engineering Workflows Keynote Style Takeaways Dries Note Takeaways Canvas Content Templates View Modes Roadmap...
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Talking Drupal #545 - DKAN
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about the open data platform DKAN, what it’s used for, and how it applies to Drupal with guests Liz Tupper & Dan Feder. We’ll also cover Modern Drupal Dashboard as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Is DKAN Who Uses Open Data 20:08 DKAN Origin Story Why Drupal Fits DKAN From Distribution to Module DKAN 2 Rebuild and JSON Shift Async Jobs and API First How Teams Publish Data What a Dataset Really Is Metadata vs Data Access Why DKAN Left Drupal Org Migration Path to DKAN Four Harvesting and Data Store ETL APIs Visualizations and Bots Roadmap...
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Talking Drupal #544 - World Cancer Day
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about World Cancer Day, how they use Drupal, and why Drupal was the right choice with our guests Charles Andrew Revkin & Diego Costa. We’ll also cover PDFa11y as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Is World Cancer Day Why UICC Uses Drupal Diego Joins the Project Multilingual Strategy at Scale Drupal Architecture and AI Tools Vetting AI Moderation and Summaries AI Disclosure and Review Traffic Spikes and Scaling Drupal Stack and React Apps Campaign Theme United by Unique Yearly Content and Three Year Cycle Drupal Community and Open Access...
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Talking Drupal #543 - Commerce 3.x
Talking Drupal
info_outlineIn Episode 549, Randy Fay and Stas Zhuk join us to discuss what DDEV is, recent improvements, and where it’s headed. Module of the week is the DDEV Drupal Contrib add-on. Randy and Stas discuss priorities like reliability, consistent UX, add-ons discoverability, and new features including revamped ddev share with Cloudflare and rootless Podman support. They also cover coder.ddev.com, a cloud-based DDEV environment built on coder.com for easier onboarding and contribution, plus sustainability, community support, and challenges such as AI-driven PR volume and Stas’s development constraints in Ukraine.
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/549
Topics
- Module of the Week - DDEV Drupal Contrib
- DDev Drupal Contri Overview
- Contrib Workflow Q&A
- Drush in Core Debate
- Add-on Registry and Contact
- Drupal AI Summit Plug
- What Is DDev
- Stas Origin Story
- Recent Releases and Priorities
- DDev Share and Podman
- Developer Experience Changes
- Database Upgrade Pain Points
- Coder DDev Cloud IDE
- Cloud DDEV Basics
- VS Code Remote Workflow
- Pair Programming Training Wins
- Docker Desktop Alternatives
- Onboarding Teams Faster
- Windows Support Reality
- Building Through War
- Roadmap Env File Fixes
- Beyond Drupal Adoption
- Addons Discovery Tools
- Funding Community Health
- AI Pull Requests Pressure
- AI Agents MCP Plans
- How To Get Involved
Resources
DDEV - https://ddev.com/
DDEV Add-on Registry - https://addons.ddev.com/
Introducing coder.ddev.com: DDEV in the Cloud - https://ddev.com/blog/coder-ddev-com-announcement/
About Stas Zhuk - https://ddev.com/blog/introducing-maintainer-stas/
Power Through Blackouts: How DDEV Community Helped Me in Ukraine - https://ddev.com/blog/power-through-blackouts-ddev-community-support/
Drush command in core - https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3453474
Drush's Final Act - https://weitzman.github.io/blog/drush-final-act
coder.com - https://coder.com/
Service hosting coder.ddev.com - https://www.hetzner.com/
Funding DDEV - https://ddev.com/blog/sustainability-for-ddev/
Gen AI DDEV newsletter note - https://ddev.com/blog/ddev-march-2026-newsletter/
Sharing Coder.ddev.com workspaces - https://github.com/ddev/coder-ddev/issues/80
Guests
Stas Zhuk - stasadev
Randy Fay - ddev.com rfay
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Rod Martin - DrupalHelps.com imrodmartin
Module of the Week
with Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
DDEV Drupal Contrib - DDEV integration for developing Drupal contrib projects. As a general philosophy, your contributed module/theme is the center of the universe.