Examiner.com was one of the first live Drupal 7 websites and remains one of the biggest in terms of traffic and total amount of content served. Just a few years later, and we’re on the edge again.

A merger with AXS.com in 2014 resulted in a need for a centralized publishing platform capable of supporting hundreds (if not thousands) of contributors, while delivering content to many different destinations each with different requirements.

When we started our initial discussions about the project in late 2014 we decided on Drupal 8. Some people would call us crazy (some actually did :)), but we were confident we were capable of accomplishing the job that was in front of us.

Almost a year later we’d like to present to you project Shakespeare 1.0. We are currently in the beta testing phase, and plan to release to our first group of contributors in November 2015.

As part of this session we’d like to discuss:

Approach
Challenges
Chasing D8 development
Business logic
Workflow management
Media management
How we felt along the way
Contributed modules
Contributions back to the community
Is OO really that scary?
What technical people think about D8
Stakeholders and D8
How cool the project Shakespeare (ok, and Drupal 8) actually is

https://2015.badcamp.net/session/how-we-built-enterprise-media-publishing-platform-d8