1) The Headless CMS presentation discusses the use of Plone as a headless CMS for Briefy, a technology-driven marketplace for content creation. 2) It highlights some of the benefits of using Plone over custom PHP or hosted solutions, including avoiding custom development, integration with front-end development, and control over performance. 3) The presentation shares positive customer feedback on using Plone and details the technical implementation including Dexterity content types, behaviors, building blocks, and integration with services like Thumbor and AWS.

1. The Headless CMS
Érico Andrei | CTO Briefy.co
Plone Conference
20th October 2016
Berlin/Boston

2. Why I am here
• Former Plone consultant
• Former Plone trainer
• Former Plone evangelist
• Former Plone developer
• Current Plone user

3. (my) last time @ Plone Conf
Bristol, 2014

4. since then

7. –Andre Lutter, CEO & Founder Briefy
„Briefy is a technology driven marketplace that simplifies the way
businesses manage the global content creation of photography and
virtual reality. Instantly and scalable.“

8. a common challenge

9. API
ImagesCMS
Notifications
Core App
Payments
Documents
Mobile
Registration
Partner
Integrations
User Mgmt

12. is there another way?

13. and you find out, there are…

16. in common (tech version)

20. and (why) I used Plone for that

21. Some reasons are better than others
• Avoiding more custom PHP
development
• Batteries included
• I’m still quite productive with Plone
• And …

22. Did not look for hosted solutions

23. and I still use Plone…

24. All good reasons
• One API endpoint
• Better control over performance issues
• Integration with front-end development
is essential

25. and now I have 4 Plone
developers in the team

27. results

28. –Kathleen McCaffrey
„With little knowledge of developing a website, this CMS meant I
quickly felt comfortable navigating the entire website and making
content changes - a much more efficient solution for editing texts and
media which will really come in use for A/B testing and seasonal
campaigns. Brilliantly simple and clear!“

29. –Yael Biran
„Ideal solution! Within a couple of days we had a live website, which
was impressive and consistent across pages. The CMS gives us the
flexibility to change all content at any given time.““

30. –Leo Chow
„So much better than Wordpress!“

31. –Alina Muller
„Come on, I used it only once!“

32. under the hood

33. Content types
• Dexterity content types
• Some custom types
• Image gallery
• Team roster
• Composite page
• Container for rows of blocks
• i.e: Jumbotron block

34. Behaviours
• Canonical URL
• Robots
• Social metadata
• Menu / site config

35. Building blocks
• plone.restapi
• plone.app.multilingual
• Policy package
• PyCharm
• AWS/Kubernetes/Deis
• Thumbor

36. Thumbor
• Image Server
• Cropping, Filters, Transforms
• OpenCV
• Event subscribers

37. lessons for Plone

41. Questions?
Oliver says hi!

42. Special thanks
Alina Muller
@mompfkopf

43. Thank you
Érico Andrei
@ericof | erico@briefy.co | https://briefy.co