When building Drupal sites today, you are often faced with two choices: Start out from scratch building a solution on top of the Drupal ecosystem, or go with an already made solution in form of a distribution. NodeStream presents a middle way: a platform distribution designed from the ground up to provide a good base to stand on when developing both custom projects and ready-to-use products.
This talk is about how you can build a platform that can be used across various projects based on the NodeStream distribution. I'm going to cover the following topics:
* What's the difference between a platform and a distribution?
* What you benefit from building on a platform rather than building from scratch.
* How to structure features with re-usability in mind.
* How you can create an installation profile that uses NodeStream as a base.
* How distribution upgrades can be managed.