During the life cycle of a Drupal project, there are many situations when you need to do expensive operations. This article explains how to organize them in order to avoid common pitfalls.
In Drupal 7 and earlier versions hook_menu has been the Swiss Army knife of hooks. But it's been removed in Drupal 8. So where did all this functionality go?
Karen Stevenson, who originally authored the CCK and Date modules, weighs in on when to adopt the newest version of Drupal and when not to...especially in times of transition between two versions.
