Add Phil Thomas and his talk

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+title: Drupal in a microservice architecture
+slot: 9
+speakers: [Phil Thomas]
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+Migrating a monolithic Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8 was always going to be a tough project. Tough to sell to a client and tough to deliver. However, migrating from a monolithic architecture to a microservice architecture allowed us to upgrade from D7 to D8 and add significant value at the same time.
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+In this talk we will review the design decisions we made and the value we added to a specific project we delivered for one of our main clients. Specifically, we review how Drupal can be used as a 100% decoupled backend with an Angular frontend.
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+We will talk about the challenges and cover the specific role Drupal plays in a microservice environment, and how it interacts with the other applications sitting alongside it.
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+Finally we will describe the benefits of such an approach, and why that’s important to us.

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+title: Phil Thomas
+role: Head of Development
+organisation: Proctor + Stevenson
+image: phil-thomas.jpeg
+links:
+    drupalorg: ~
+    twitter: pkht
+use: [sessions]
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+I'm Head of Development at Proctor + Stevenson, where my day to day role includes a mix of development, architecture and general dogsbody. I've been a developer for 15 years now, with experience across a range of marketing clients including Panasonic and Movember. Father of 2, cyclist of long distances. (very) amateur brewer.