eZ Publish Users & Developers

eZ Publish 5/Symfony and Comparing eZ Publish with Drupal

October 25, 2012 · 9:00 AM
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This is Community Presentation Series #2.

Topic 1: eZ Publish 5 and Symfony (Nicolas Pastorino, VP of Community, eZ Systems)

We will, in 15 minutes, shortly tour the brand new eZ Publish 5 architecture, how it integrates in the Symfony 2 framework and how content edition works. We will also give you useful pointers to following-up on eZ Publish 5's fast-paced evolution.

Topic 2: eZ Publish & Drupal (Joe Kepley, Director of Development, Blend Interactive)

Comparing and contrasting these two popular PHP-based open source content management systems.

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Frank Gilson

Lastly, in our choice of CMS, we are a game company and will have on our website static content, but also community forums, ecommerce, account registration/login, some degree of personalization per user (based on usage patterns), and some rating/recommendation systems for content and users. I know that's a lot, and we wouldn't launch with all those features but release them over time. In which CMS (Drupal or eZ Publish) would this be more efficient to accomplish? In which would non-developers have an easier time of operating the website?

0 · October 25, 2012
Frank Gilson

What about website performance in Drupal vs. eZ?

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- Joe Kepley
  
  eZ has a strong built-in caching system, and with careful template design you can produce a site which renders the entire page on a single MySQL call and returns a page in 30-40ms.
  
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- Joe Kepley
  
  On the Drupal side, as with most things, the answer is "Depends on the modules". The Drupal community has developed a number of caching modules, and I wouldn't recommend scaling to load without one. In general, reverse proxy systems like Varnish are the great equalizers in terms of performance. With careful design of a caching architecture, you can really make either system scale to massive loads, and developers have done so for both.
  
  Without reverse proxy caching, I'd give the edge to eZ Publish, but I'm sure I can find a Drupal developer that would disagree. :-)
  
  0 · October 25, 2012
- Frank Gilson
  
  Thank you, Joe.
  
  0 · October 25, 2012
Doug Plant

I heard a rumour that there are a couple projects that are doing continuous integrations of ez5 ... can you say anything specific about these?

0 · October 25, 2012
- Doug Plant
  
  There is the "demo" project that is being done internally, and this is well known, but I heard as well that a very significant client in Europe is doing an eZ5 integration on their own dime as a way of testing compatibility and stability. I think the latter project would be hugely significant for helping to decide when to start adopting eZ5 for big projects. But this info is a rumour and might not be ready for prime time.
  
  0 · October 25, 2012
Steven Zahner

Are copies of these decks going to be provided?

0 · October 25, 2012
- Greg McAvoy-Jensen
  
  Yes! Nicolas' can be found here:
  
  0 · October 25, 2012
- Greg McAvoy-Jensen
  
  http://slideshare.net...
  
  0 · October 25, 2012