Alex Moreno Lopez

Developer Advocate and Technical Architect

Alejandro is a Technical Architect who has worked in different roles, from pure development, to leading small and medium teams, to co-founding three different companies with different partners in Technology, Content management, Marketing Online and Tourism. He's also been lucky enough to have worked and led some of the biggest enterprise projects in Drupal like Royal Mail, Parcelforce , and BBC. Before joining Acquia, Alejandro was the Technical Architect at BBC, leading two teams responsible for the delivery and innovation of two of the biggest brands in the corporation: BBC GoodFood and BBC TopGear. He also worked with one of the biggest consultancies in the world, Capgemini, where he enjoyed the delivery and learning curve of complex tools and architectures of the enterprise world. Born in sunny Alicante, Alejandro moved to London exchanging sun, good weather and exceptional food for interesting projects, incredible teams and amazing challenges. He still doesn’t regret that choice... most of the time. He loves learning languages, everything boarding (skateboarding, snowboarding, kitesurf, surf …), cycling, and spending time with his daughter, his wife, and his French Bulldog. Education: <ul><li>Software engineering, European University of Madrid</li> <li>Java Certified, University of Valencia https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmorenolopez/</li> <li>Acquia Developer Certified</li> <li>Surf certified at #DrupalCampSpain 2019</li> </ul>

Acquia Developer Studio in Drupalcon Amsterdam

October 29, 2019
2 minute read

Setting up a Drupal environment has been traditionally quite a “pain in the servers,” if you allow me the expression. That’s why tools like Acquia Dev Desktop became so popular.

If you have worked with Drupal in the past ten years you have probably worked with (or have a colleague that worked with) Dev Desktop. See this poll I published a few days ago:

Calling my #drupal fellows. I'm doing a quick #tweenvestigation. Who knows about @acquia #devdesktop?#Developers #Developers #Developers
— Alex Moreno (@morenodotnet) October 18, 2019

Fortunately developer tools have come a long way since those days, and now we have amazing tools like Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes… and wrappers around those that make technology even easier to use, like DDEV, Lando, and Docksal.

On top of that, Acquia Dev Desktop is enjoying a re-birth, in the shape of the new Acquia Developer Studio. It won’t be a replacement or a competitor for the previously mentioned Docker based tools, but instead it's a perfect companion, the right supplement for anyone working in Drupal and looking to simplify and enjoy a more efficient workflow.

You would add Acquia Developer Studio on top of a Docker tool like Lando for the same reason you would add Lando or DDEV to Docker. It automates and simplifies everything. It just makes sense.

To learn more about Acquia Developer Studio visit me at Drupalcon Amsterdam, where I'm doing a few Lightning Talks about Acquia Developer Studio, BLT and Lighting, and join us on the last day for a Battle of the local tools where the teams in DDEV (Randy Fay), Lando (Mark Casias), Docksal (Engin Yilmaz), Launchpad (Mattias Michaux), Lagoon (Michael Schmid) and myself representing Acquia will be in a round table debating about all of this, and also answering your questions.

Please do join us :-)