DrupalCamp London session: Concurrency in Drupal

On March 1, I attended DrupalCamp London as a speaker. It was my first time running a session, but my training topic, Concurrency in Drupal, turned out to be a popular choice!

What is Concurrency in Drupal?

Concurrency in Drupal is the description and demonstration of making migrate faster. You can learn more about it in a previous blog of mine.

The session

During my half-hour session, I covered the basics of:

• Why concurrency makes programs faster and;
• How to wrapper drush and migrate to make it execute in parallel.

The presentation

The wisdom of the crowd

The great thing about DrupalCamps are the discussions that take place - and there was an interesting debate after my session where the conference delegates described other approaches to solving the problem.

For example, a number of participants liked the ‘brave’ live demo which showed a migration first taking two minutes with one process, and dropping to around 20 seconds with eight processes.

Would I do it again?

Actually, yes. I would.

All in all, it was a good first 'Drupal session' experience - so if you have discovered something of interest to share with the community, I'd recommend you give it a go!