Tag1 Team Talks | The Tag1 Consulting Podcast
122 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -From global technology consulting firm Tag1 Consulting, Tag1 Team Talks are wide-ranging, in-depth conversations about implementing various open-source technologies, including the business prerogatives and technical ins and outs with leading web developers and technologists. Join us as we explore trends in open source.
About Tag1
At Tag1, we are redefining the boundaries of digital possibilities. As a leading name in the industry, we are committed to delivering innovative and tailored solutions that meet your specific needs.
Our strength lies in our team. We boast a roster of highly skilled professionals, many of whom are principal architects and maintainers of crucial Drupal projects and core initiatives. Their wealth of experience and unique insights drive our success.
Our expertise at Tag1 is both broad and deep. We specialize in Enterprise-Scale Web Applications, CMS solutions, Drupal Upgrades and Migrations, and Full Digital Transformations. We also excel in Integrations and Custom Development, ensuring our solutions align with your business objectives. In Infrastructure and Scalability Architecture, we design systems ready to meet current needs and scale with future growth. Our capabilities are diverse, proven, and reliable.
Security at Tag1 is a fundamental aspect, not an afterthought. We prioritize safeguarding your digital assets in every solution we deliver.
We proudly partner with industry leaders, including Global 500s (Google, Sumitomo), Fortune 500s (Symantec, Albemarle), system integrators (NTT, Capgemini), government agencies (the White House, the European Union), media companies (NY Times, Al Jazeera), educational institutions (Stanford, Smithsonian Institute), not-for-profits (AFL-CIO, ACLU), and more.
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Episodes
Introducing Goose, a highly scalable load testing framework written in Rust - Tag1 TeamTalk #016
June 15, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBResearch shows that if your application introduces latency of even a few milliseconds, your business revenue can suffer immensely. At Tag1, we often have clients approach us with concerns about high traffic. Load testing and performance tuning often elicit groans from architects and developers more interested in building features, but it is a critical step in the process to ensuring your web application can operate at scale under heavy load. Though other load testing ecosystems exist, most n...
Core Confidential #2 :: What you need to know about Drupal 9 (and more)
June 07, 2020 12:30 - 21 minutes - 20 MBThough the biggest news this month is the release of Drupal 9, that doesn't mean big releases aren't happening on other versions of Drupal too. The milestone represented by Drupal 9 also welcomes new versions of both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 to the Drupal ecosystem. It's been four-and-a-half years since Drupal 8 was released, and 54 months of development from scores of contributors around the world went into Drupal 9. And thanks to the indefatigable efforts of open-source contributors in the mo...
A Deep Dive into ReasonML - Building resilient apps with high stability - Tag1 TeamTalk #015
May 27, 2020 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBReasonML is a functional programming language that has built-in React support, JavaScript-like syntax, and a highly efficient toolchain optimized for code management and compilation. With seamless interoperability with existing JavaScript and originally written by Facebook, ReasonML is quickly becoming a language of choice not only for functional programming enthusiasts well-versed in OCaml but also for React architects and developers who need better state handling and more robust typing. A...
Core Confidential #1: Day in the life of a Core Maintainer & notes on Drupal 9 readiness
May 13, 2020 13:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBWhat is the day-to-day life of a Drupal core committer like? Besides squashing bugs and shepherding the Drupal project, the maintainers responsible for Drupal core are also constantly thinking of ways to improve the developer experience and upgrade process for novice and veteran Drupal users alike. With Drupal 9 coming just around the corner, and with no extended support planned for Drupal 8 thanks to a more seamless transition to the next major release, Drupal's core developers are hard at ...
The Drupal Association is the Drupal DNA giving Life to our Code & Community - Tag1 TeamTalk #014
May 05, 2020 13:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBDrupal is one of the largest and most active open-source projects in the world, and the Drupal Association is responsible for enabling it to thrive by creating and maintaining tooling and other projects that keep Drupal humming. Though many in the Drupal community and outside it see the Drupal Association only as the organizer of the global DrupalCon conferences each year, the Drupal Association is, in fact, responsible for some of the most critical elements that sustain Drupal as a software...
eLearning with Kids at Home featuring HTML5 Speech-to-Text -Tag1 TeamTalk #013
April 22, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBWith people around the world working from home and caring for their families in these challenging times, many of us are struggling with the difficulty of juggling work and having to homeschool our children. This can be even more challenging when your kids are very young and require more supervision and attention. As technologists we always think, “is there some way I can solve my problem with code and automation” Based in Vienna, Laslo Horváth (Senior Laravel Developer at Tag1) did just th...
Tackling Complex Business Logic with Laravel - Tag1 TeamTalk #012
March 25, 2020 12:30 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBLaravel is a PHP framework that has witnessed comparatively less attention than CMS heavyweights like Drupal and WordPress and frameworks like Symfony, but it nonetheless offers several compelling advantages for enterprise website implementations. Recently, a large organization worked with Tag1 to move legacy databases into a more modern approach that, coupled with Laravel and Vue.js, led to considerable improvements in not only developer experience but also user experience. Moreover, Larav...
Tackling Complex Business Logic with Laravel - Tag1 TeamTalks #012
March 25, 2020 12:30 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBLaravel is a PHP framework that has witnessed comparatively less attention than CMS heavyweights like Drupal and WordPress and frameworks like Symfony, but it nonetheless offers several compelling advantages for enterprise website implementations. Recently, a large organization worked with Tag1 to move legacy databases into a more modern approach that, coupled with Laravel and Vue.js, led to considerable improvements in not only developer experience but also user experience. Moreover, Larave...
Adding Collaborative Capabilities to the Gutenberg Editor with Yjs - Tag1 Team Talk #011
February 19, 2020 13:00 - 50 minutes - 115 MBContent collaboration has long been table stakes for content management systems like WordPress and Drupal, but what about real-time peer-to-peer collaboration between editors who need direct interaction to work on their content? The WordPress Gutenberg team has been working with Tag1 Consulting and the community of Yjs, an open-source real-time collaboration framework, to enable collaborative editing on the Gutenberg editor. Currently an experimental feature that is available in a Gutenberg ...
Claro: the New Drupal Admin UI - Tag1 TeamTalk #010
February 12, 2020 13:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBAn effective administrative interface is table stakes for any content management system that wishes to make a mark with users. Claro is a new administration theme now available in Drupal 8 core thanks to the Admin UI Modernization initiative. Intended to serve as a logical next step for Drupal's administration interface and the Seven theme, Claro was developed with a keen eye for modern design patterns, accessibility best practices, and careful analysis of usability studies and surveys condu...
Yjs Offline Apps with IndexedDB - Tag1 TeamTalk #009
February 05, 2020 11:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MBWhat happens when you have a connection that isn't working, but you have a mission-critical document that you need to collaborate on with others around the world? The problem of peer-to-peer collaboration in an offline environment is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for editorial organizations and enterprises. As we continue to work on documents together on flights, trains, and buses, offline-first shared editing is now a base-level requirement rather than a pipe dream. Yjs, an open-...
Peer-to-peer Collaborative Editing Using Yjs & WebRTC- Tag1 Team Talk #007
January 22, 2020 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBWebRTC, a protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer communication between two clients via the browser, is now supported by all modern browsers. Since its introduction it has mainly been used for web conferencing solutions, but WebRTC is ideal for a variety of other use cases as well. Because of its wide platform support, creating peer-to-peer applications for the web is now more straightforward than ever. But how do you manage many people working together at the same time on the same data? Afte...
Drush 10-Tag1 Team Talk #006
January 13, 2020 13:00 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBWith the release of Drupal 8.8, Drush is also due for an upgrade — to Drush 10. For this venerable command-line interface that many Drupal developers know intimately well, what does the present and future look like? What considerations should we keep in mind when selecting Drupal Console or Drush? What new features are available in Drush 10 that characterize the new CI/CD approaches we see expanding in the Drupal community? In this Tag1 Team Talk, join the creator and maintainer of Drush Mo...
A Deep Dive into Yjs - Part 2 - TagTeamTalk #005
November 11, 2019 13:00 - 52 minutes - 72 MBYjs, one of the most powerful and robust frameworks for real-time collaborative editing, enables developers to add shared editing capabilities to any application with relatively little effort. In order to make it so easy to use and extend Yjs, the framework abstracts all the complexities, many moving pieces, and deep technical concepts involved in empowering offline first, peer to peer, real time collaboration. In this Tag1 Team Talk, we continue our deep dive into Yjs with the founder and ...
Drupal Auto Updater
November 05, 2019 14:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBAutomatic updates are coming to Drupal at the end of October! Long one of the most commonly requested features in the Drupal community, Drupal 7 and D8 will soon have an automatic updater that will allow Drupal installations to stay up-to-date more easily. How does Drupal's new auto updater work, and what do you need to know about it? In this Tag1 Team Talk, we dive into not only Drupal's new automatic updates feature itself but also its architecture, components, and roadmap, as well as why ...
Decoupled Drupal - Strengths and Weaknesses - TagTeamTalk #008
November 05, 2019 13:00 - 48 minutes - 90.4 MBDecoupled Drupal has been a trending topic for years in the Drupal community as well as the larger CMS landscape. What do some of the pioneers of the decoupled Drupal phenomenon have to say about what's possible today for decoupled Drupal and what's in store for practitioners? From GraphQL v4, to live preview with Gatsby, to Web Components browser supports, innovation in the Drupal community is now quickly challenging some of our initial assumptions and visions for the future. In this intros...
A Deep Dive into Yjs-Part 1 - TagTeamTalk #004
November 05, 2019 13:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBYjs is a very compelling choice when it comes to building real-time collaborative applications. A powerful open-source, offline first, peer to peer, shared editing framework that is modular and extensible, Yjs enables developers to easily add real time collaborative capabilities to any type of application. Rich text editing, drawing, 3d modeling... the list of potential use cases for Yjs is lengthy and remarkable. But how did it get started, what is the algorithm it’s based on, and what does...
Drupal Auto Updater - TagTeamTalk #003
November 05, 2019 13:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBAutomatic updates are coming to Drupal at the end of October! Long one of the most commonly requested features in the Drupal community, Drupal 7 and D8 will soon have an automatic updater that will allow Drupal installations to stay up-to-date more easily. How does Drupal's new auto updater work, and what do you need to know about it? In this Tag1 Team Talk, we dive into not only Drupal's new automatic updates feature itself but also its architecture, components, and roadmap, as well as why ...
A Deep Dive Into Rich Text Editors
October 17, 2019 13:00 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBRich text editors are an integral part of content creation and content management workflows, but they can often present challenges for developers when it comes to robustness, extensibility, flexibility, and accessibility. What are some of the considerations you should keep in mind when evaluating rich text editors, especially for mission-critical systems like the application Tag1 is building for a top Fortune 50 company? In this Tag1 Team Talk, we explore the new generation of rich text ed...
A Deep Dive Into Rich Text Editors - TagTeamTalk #002
October 17, 2019 13:00 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBRich text editors are an integral part of content creation and content management workflows, but they can often present challenges for developers when it comes to robustness, extensibility, flexibility, and accessibility. What are some of the considerations you should keep in mind when evaluating rich text editors, especially for mission-critical systems like the application Tag1 is building for a top Fortune 50 company? In this Tag1 Team Talk, we explore the new generation of rich text ed...
A Deep Dive Into Real Time Collaborative Editing Solutions -TagTeamTalk #001
October 14, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBWhat is real-time collaborative editing, and what are some of the most compelling technologies available in the space? In the inaugural TAG Team Talk, hosted by Preston So (Contributing Editor, Tag1 Consulting), we conduct a wide-ranging discussion about both the business prerogatives and technical ins-and-outs of real-time collaborative editing and its landscape today, with our guests Kevin Jahns (creator of Yjs and collaborative editing expert at Tag1 Consulting), Fabian Franz (Senior Tech...
A Deep Dive Into Real Time Collaborative Editing Solutions
October 14, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBWhat is real-time collaborative editing, and what are some of the most compelling technologies available in the space? In the inaugural TAG Team Talk, hosted by Preston So (Contributing Editor, Tag1 Consulting), we conduct a wide-ranging discussion about both the business prerogatives and technical ins-and-outs of real-time collaborative editing and its landscape today, with our guests Kevin Jahns (creator of Yjs and collaborative editing expert at Tag1 Consulting), Fabian Franz (Senior Tech...