Wim Leers, Senior Software Engineer in the Acquia Office of the CTO (aka “OCTO”), has been busy in the last few years making Drupal 8 amazing! His contributions include working with Fabian Franz on aspects of Drupal’s new caching and rendering systems to make Drupal 8 performant. Today’s podcast is a conversation he and I had about who he is and what he’s been up to following our own collaboration preparing my own post on BigPipe.

Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/229-bigpipe-drupal-8-better-perceived-performance-free

John Kennedy and I spoke about two exciting Drupal 8 projects he's running at Acquia in 2016. He's the Program Manager of the $500,000 US dollars Acquia is investing upgrading important modules from Drupal 7 to 8 as part of the Drupal 8 Module Acceleration Program. He's also the Product Manager of Acquia's Enterprise Authoring Drupal 8 distribution, Lightning.

Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/228-drupal-8-lightning-distro-and-module-acceleration-program

Laura Caraker's remarkable journey at Acquia. In this podcast, she and I talk through how she joined Acquia Sales, wanted to know more about Drupal and ended up joining the technical side of the house via her stint at Acquia U, Acquia's Drupal and tech boot camp.

Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/227-how-laura-moved-sales-tech-drupal-story

Welcome to the first of six podcasts I recorded in Mumbai as DrupalCon Asia 2016! It pleasure to record this conversation with an old Drupal friend and Acquia podcast guest--Hussain Dehgamwala (aka Hussain Abbas)--and a new Drupal friend and guest--Parth Gohil--both from Axelerant. And it was my privilege to be the first guest on their new podcast, The Geek Voice! We’re releasing this conversation together. Be sure to go check out Episode Zero of their show to see what else they have up their sleeves ... and what they said about me when I wasn’t around ;-)

Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/226-co-podcast-mumbai-introducing-geek-voice-parth-and-hussain

How does the Instant Runoff Voting system actually work? How could we make the Board elections better for the Drupal community?

Thanks to everyone who put yourselves out there and ran in this election and congratulations to our newest board member, Shyamala Rajaram! I’m certain you will use this power for good :-)

I sat down with Michael “Schnitzel” Schmid in my office in Cologne to talk about the 2016 election for a Director at Large Drupal Association Board position. Schnitzel was a candidate and the election had just concluded when we spoke.

Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/225-drupal-association-director-large-2016-election-commentary