Published: Wed, 02/17/16Download this episodeBig Pipe

• What is Big Pipe?
• This isn’t a Drupal specific thing right? Where did the idea of BigPipe come from?
• How does it work?
  • Builds on Drupal 8’s caching system, specifically cacheability metadata (tags, contexts, max-age)
  • Rendering system (bubbling, placeholders)
  • page cache / dynamic page cache
  • BigPipe is built ON TOP OF ALL OF THE ABOVE
• Does it work for anonymous and authenticated users?
• Is this compatible with reverse proxies like Varnish?
• Does BigPipe affect the need for something like redis or memchache?
• How does BigPipe relate to authcache?

Use Cases

• How can we start using it? What’s the install process?
• What do we need to do to configure it for our site?
• Is BigPipe ready to be used?
• Is there anything like this for Drupal 7?

Questions from Twitter

• Daniel Noyola @danielnv18
  What can I do to make my site compatible with BigPipe? O what shouldn't do?
• Daniel Noyola @danielnv18
  Is it compatible with contrib modules like panels or display suite?
• Ryan Gibson @ryanissamson
  I may have missed it, when BigPipe is included in D8.1, will it be enabled by default?
• TheodorosPloumis @theoploumis
  Is the bigpipe caching working with the RESTful responses?

Episode Links: Wim on drupal.orgWim on TwitterBigPipe ModuleBigPipe DemoFacebook Engineering blog post about BigPipeRendervizWimleers.comTags: Drupal 8Big PipePerformanceplanet-drupal