My official role in Drupal 8 was as Lead of the Web services Initiative (WSCCI). That is, our mandate was to make Web services better in Drupal. Or, as we phrased it in our mission statement:
This time we're joined by Palantir.net Engineer Kelsey Betham who tells us all about exporting features in drupal, including why and when you should, and how doing so
Web Services in today's applications and websites have become critical to interacting with third parties, and a lot of Drupal developers have the need to expose content and features on their site via an API.
This is the first in our weekly bonus podcast that deals with shorter tips and resources that will help you with some straightforward facet of your web project. It's a compliment to our monthly, long-form podcast On the Air With Palantir.
In his semi-annual “Driesnote” at DrupalCon Barcelona last month, Drupal founder and project lead Dries Buytaert spoke openly and frankly about some of the challenges
In our last episode, we talked about the various ways of storing data in Drupal 8. One important point we noted was that "in the database" is not an option. All of Drupal's storage systems are abstractions above the actual data store.