Do you have multiple Drupal sites that share some sites/all code? Are you hosting on Acquia or thinking about possibly one day hosting with them? Are you passionate about continuous integration and curious how we achieved a seamless deployment process at American Media, publisher of sites like shape.com, mensfitness.com and flexonline.com?

Learn how we first created a beautifully-tortuous custom solution -- difficult to maintain or scale -- and then discovered Acquia LayerCake. We will show you how we solved the dilemma of leveraging shared code while maintaining a sane site deployment cycle. See how we made it easy to support the live production site while using the same shared repos to build out new Drupal 6 to 7 migration projects. And finally a real use-case for the git checkout --orphan [branch] command!

Having a seamless continuous integration platform WILL save you countless hours of tedious, repetitive work. And, of course, you will no longer have to search through bash scripts to figure out where that line of code is that sends the deployment confirmation emails…