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A new open-source Drupal module aims to reduce the repeated custom development often required to connect Drupal-managed content with Mautic campaigns. By exposing Drupal nodes and Views directly inside Mautic workflows, the module provides a more standardised approach to content delivery and segment-based personalisation.

08 May 2026 8:44am GMT

Nic Laflin and Matt Glaman sit down to discuss Drupal caching and Matt's new Leanpub book, Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/cafe016

Topics

• New Book on Caching
• Why Drupal Caching Shines
• Cache Tags Explained
• Cache Context Variations
• What Caching Really Is
• Invalidation Across the Stack
• NGINX Layer Pitfalls
• What Drupal Can Cache
• Writing Cacheable Render Arrays
• Debugging Metadata Issues
• Testing Caching Strategies
• Researching the Book
• Variation Cache Deep Dive
• Access Policy and Performance
• Permissions Caching and Disk IO
• Extension Discovery Tangent
• File Cache Explained
• Clearing File Cache in Tests
• Updating the Book Over Time
• Leanpub Pricing and Royalties
• Publishing Workflow and Tools
• Writing Process and Editing

Matt Glaman

Matt Glaman is an experienced software engineer and a prominent member of the Drupal community. With over a decade of experience in web development, he has developed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He is the author of several books, including "Drupal 8 Development Cookbook" and "Drupal 10 Development Cookbook," which provide a comprehensive guide to building and customizing Drupal sites. And recently, the book Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers.

Nic Laflin

Nic Laflin is an accomplished Drupal architect and the founder of nLightened Development LLC, a web development and design firm established in 2008 that leverages highly extensible CMS frameworks to solve complex business challenges. They've been working with Drupal since late 2008, delivering creative solutions for a diverse roster of clients-from government agencies and e-commerce platforms to higher-education institutions and HIPAA-compliant medical services. Recently, Nic has focused on Native Web Components for platform-agnostic design, and has deep experience integrating AWS and building mobile application back ends. A recognized Drupal guru, Nic speaks regularly at regional Drupal camps and co-hosts the Talking Drupal podcast, where they share best practices and innovations with the community. Outside of technology, Nic enjoys building with LEGO, experimenting in the kitchen, and designing home automation projects. You can learn more at www.nlightened.net.

Resources

Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers https://mglaman.dev/blog/leveraging-list-cache-tag-entity-types If you're using a reverse proxy then disable the internal page cache https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3414825

Guests

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan

Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman

08 May 2026 12:56am GMT

Drupal Commerce powers live auctions involving thousands of concurrent users, serves catalogues with millions of products, and presents rich product pages with hundreds of attributes and variations. And it does so with speed and reliability. In fact, it was architected to manage high volume and high complexity.

So why does your Drupal Commerce site feel so slow? Why does it feel like you're constantly fighting bottlenecks and performance problems?

It's not the platform. It's something else.

In this webinar, Ryan Szrama and Tom Ashe will cover the most common culprits behind slow Drupal Commerce sites and how you can start fixing them.

Whether you're troubleshooting a slow site yourself or managing a team that is, you'll walk away with a practical checklist to investigate and a process for diagnosing your performance issues.

Join us on Tuesday, June 9th, at 10:30 AM ET.

Register for the webinar.

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07 May 2026 7:11pm GMT

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs shares his thoughts about age-restrictions and user privacy on the web - a topic that was at the heart of the October W3C/IAB workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content, and recent W3C Members conversations.

30 Apr 2026 8:04pm GMT

Breakouts Day 2026 was the third edition of W3C's fully remote community driven information sharing event. In this post we summarize key aspects of the event.

14 Apr 2026 11:03am GMT

Earlier this month, the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) gathered in London for a multi-day face-to-face meeting. While the TAG meets regularly online, these in-person sessions remain an important part of how the group builds shared understanding, tackles complex architectural questions, and welcomes new members into the work.

03 Apr 2026 12:00am GMT

On January 14, 2006, John Resig introduced a JavaScript library called jQuery at BarCamp in New York City. Now, 20 years later, the jQuery team is happy to announce the final release of jQuery 4.0.0. After a long development cycle and several pre-releases, jQuery 4.0.0 brings many improvements and modernizations. It is the first major … Continue reading →

18 Jan 2026 12:29am GMT

It's here! Almost. jQuery 4.0.0-rc.1 is now available. It's our way of saying, "we think this is ready; now poke it with many sticks". If nothing is found that requires a second release candidate, jQuery 4.0.0 final will follow. Please try out this release and let us know if you encounter any issues. A 4.0 … Continue reading →

11 Aug 2025 5:35pm GMT

Last February, we released the first beta of jQuery 4.0.0. We're now ready to release a second, and we expect a release candidate to come soon™. This release comes with a major rewrite to jQuery's testing infrastructure, which removed all deprecated or under-supported dependencies. But the main change that warranted a second beta was a … Continue reading →

17 Jul 2024 2:03pm GMT

When it comes to crafting an article, the headline is crucial for grabbing the reader's attention and enticing them to read further. In this post, I'll explore the 7 types of article headlines and provide examples for each using the subjects of product management, user experience design, and search engine optimization. 1. The Know-it-All The […]

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29 May 2023 10:20pm GMT

Product management is one of the most exciting and rewarding careers in the tech world. But it's also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented. There are many myths and misconceptions that cloud the reality of what product managers do, how they do it, and what skills they need to succeed. In this blog post, […]

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09 Apr 2023 5:28pm GMT

The role of a product manager is crucial to the success of any product. They are responsible for managing the entire product life cycle, from conceptualization to launch and beyond. A product manager must possess a unique blend of skills and qualities to be effective in their role. Strong strategic thinking A product manager must […]

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11 Dec 2022 4:43pm GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT