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DDEV is an open-source tool that makes it easy to set up and manage local development environments for Drupal. It uses Docker containers to create isolated environments that are consistent across different operating systems. This makes it easy to share your local development environment with other developers and to ensure that your code will work on any platform.

DDEV also includes a number of features that make it easy to manage your local development environment. You can use DDEV to create, start, stop, and destroy your local development environment with a single command. You can also use DDEV to manage your dependencies, databases, and other resources.

If you're looking for a way to streamline your Drupal development process, DDEV is a great option. It's easy to use, powerful, and feature-rich.

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Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a cross-platform messaging solution that allows app developers to send notifications to devices on Android, iOS, and the web. FCM supports sending messages to individual devices, groups of devices, or topics, making it easy to reach your entire user base with relevant notifications.

FCM is built on top of Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), which was deprecated in 2019. FCM provides a more flexible and reliable platform for sending notifications to mobile devices.

What are Push Notifications?

Push notifications are short messages that are sent from a server to a client device to alert the user about important events or updates. Push notifications are an important feature for mobile applications, as they allow apps to provide timely and relevant information to users even when the app is not in use.

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Apache Kafka is an open-source software platform that functions as a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system allowing the exchange of data between applications, servers, and processors, while also providing a robust queue that can handle a high volume of data and enables messages to be passed from one end-point to another.

Apache Kafka was originally developed by LinkedIn, later it was donated to the Apache Software Foundation and became an open-sourced Apache project in early 2011. Currently, it is maintained by Confluent under Apache Software Foundation. Kafka is written in Scala and Java. More than 80% of all Fortune 100 companies trust and use Kafka.                     

INTRODUCTION

Valuebound helped Farm Journal Media’s Greenbook to provide its end users with a user-friendly interface. Greenbook caters specifically to the North American region with 800 manufacturers listing ten thousand labels. Valuebound migrated this directory based site from a legacy based system to new architecture based on Drupal 8 for easy search of information, highly categorized indexing with options like active ingredient contained, label, crop, manufacturer, pest and so on.

Farm Journal Media is America’s leading business information and media company serving the agricultural market. Started 139 years ago with the pre-eminent Farm Journal magazine, the company serves the row crop, livestock, produce and retail sectors through 26 branded websites, e-newsletters and phone apps; 11 business magazines; 70 events; six nationally broadcasted television and radio programs; a robust mobile text marketing business; and an array of data-driven paid information products. Greenbook is owned and maintained by the Farm Journal Media. For more than 30 years Greenbook has collected, maintained, and disseminated the most useful plant protection chemical dataset available. Working in direct cooperation with pesticide companies Greenbook transforms product labeling into indexed, actionable data in an unbiased presentation, that is easily accessible.

CHALLENGE

The aim was to build a new label management system from the custom database Greenbook had been maintaining, for a superior authoring experience for the editors and a robust search system for its end users. Greenbook needed to deliver a website that would have data searchable by label, pest, manufacturer, pest and so on. It also needed to display latest news searchable by topic.

INTRODUCTION

CommonFloor.com is one of India’s leading real estate portal, offering home seekers, sellers and real estate professionals an extensive online real estate ecosystem. Apart from a robust search mechanism, the portal also maintains a vast repository of well-researched content on a host of property related matters ranging from legal issues to maintenance, facility management and home insurance among many others. One of the main problems they were facing was how to repurpose the content across property data – their core product – as well as making it available over different platforms e.g. iOS/Android where user experience is quite different from desktop devices

CHALLENGE

FLEXIBILITY

STRATEGIC EXPANSION

SCALABILITY

CONTENT AUTOTAGGING

AN EASY TO USE WORKING ENVIRONMENT

Initially, the client team was a bit reluctant to use Drupal to serve the content. The then repository was governed by Wordpress which gave them very less flexibility to work on. The content strategy was changing within the organisation which the framework failed to deliver. This compelled them to utilize a SOA architecture to have more control over the content to be shown.

They were more inclined towards Wordpress for which they had an internal team available. But once they saw the proof of concept using Drupal as backend and Angular for consuming the content, they were really impressed with how easy & fast it would be for the team to create new services as well as customize existing services.

The bout between the two contenders was won by Drupal mainly because of the modular architecture of Drupal which fulfilled the flexibility they required. The scalable, extensible environment of Drupal and out-of-the-box features of the Services module - which became the main pillar of the project - convinced them to use Drupal as their platform of choice for their content repository application.

INTRODUCTION

Pro Farmer is a robust new portfolio of freemium services focused on the information needs of agricultural professionals — helping business owners and producers alike manage risk, make better decisions and be more successful.

Subscribers to Farm Journal Pro gain access to valuable market news and analysis from Pro Farmer.

CHALLENGE

FLEXIBILITY

AN EASY TO USE WORKING ENVIRONMENT

ANALYTICS SUPPORT

TRIAL PERIOD ARTICLES

REAL TIME MARKET UPDATES

Functionally, the editorial team from Pro Farmer needed to easily manage all content, allowing its classification into different taxonomies, ability to make the articles free or paid, a dashboard for the editors and easy to use content moderation. The core of the project architecture is an implementation of Drupal 8 as content manager. The robust permission and content authoring experience made Drupal as the CMS of the choice for the stakeholders and the editors.

Even though Drupal has a commerce option, the portal had to be integrated with Microsoft Dynamics: Nodus & Payfarbric for payment and subscription invoices. Drupal’s elastic extensibility was a good choice to integrated these external tools to handle the whole subscription management.

INTRODUCTION

Farm Journal Media is the nation's leading agricultural media company. Its magazines are the 138-year-old flagship Farm Journal, as well as Top Producer, Beef Today, Dairy Today, and Implement & Tractor. The company produces and distributes "AgDay", "U.S. Farm Report," "Corn College TV" and "Leave a Legacy" national TV programs. The company also handles the industry-leading website AgWeb.com, the syndicated radio show "AgriTalk" and recently launched a new division, Farm Journal Mobile.

The mission of Farm Journal's MILK is to connect with large-dairy producers(those with 500 or more cows)and provide them with the information and resources they need to run their operation and continue to expand opportunistically.

CHALLENGE

Most of the web brands of FarmJournal are currently run on ASP.Net. However, gradually Farm Journal is adopting Drupal as a new platform and had begun to spin-off a few sites in Drupal 7 using a multi site architecture. With the release of Drupal 8 they were keen to determine if its successor, Drupal 8 would fill their requirements. They approached this migration in a gradual way and the Milk site was the first they wanted to test the flexibility and scalability of Drupal 8.