Podcast Episode Details

Talking Drupal #521 - Tugboat

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Today we are talking about Tugboat, What it does, and how it can super charge your ci/cd process with guest James Sansbury. We'll also cover ShURLy as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/521

Topics

• Celebrating 20 Years with Drupal
• Introduction to Tugboat
• Comparing Tugboat with Other Solutions
• Tugboat's Unique Advantages
• Standardizing Workflows with Tugboat
• Handling Hosting and Development Delays
• Troubleshooting and Knowledge Transfer
• Client Base and Use Cases
• Agency Partnerships and Payment Structures
• Unique and Interesting Use Cases
• Challenges and Limitations of Tugboat
• Setting Up and Onboarding with Tugboat
• The Tugboat Origin Story
• Compliance and Security Considerations

Resources

• Tugboat
• Tugboat FEDRamp
• Lullabot Sells Tugboat Platform to Enable Independent Growth
• Shurly
• Talking Drupal #390 - Employee Owned Companies

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi James Sansbury - tugboatqa.com q0rban

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to use Drupal as a URL shortening service? There's a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • ShURLy
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Aug 2010 by Jeff Robbins (jjeff) though recent releases are by João Ventura (jcnventura) of Portugal
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.0-beta4 which supports Drupal 9.3, 10, and 11
• Maintainership
  • Minimally maintained, maintenance fixes only. Also, the project page says that the 8.x branch is not ready for production use. So a big caveat emptor if you decide to try it
  • Number of open issues: 18 open issues, 5 of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 730 sites
• Module features and usage
  • With the ShURLly module installed, you can specify a long URL you want shortened, optionally also providing a case-sensitive short URL you want to use. If none is provided a short URL will be automatically generated
  • The module provides usage data for the short URLs, and and a user you can see a list the ones you've created as well as their click data
  • I was a little surprised to see that created short URLs are stored in a custom db table instead of as entities, but the module is able to avoid a full bootstrap of Drupal before issuing the intended redirects
  • The module provides blocks fo

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