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docs/blog/2020-04-05-LA-2020-Gladwell.md

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+title: "Gatsby Days LA 2020 Video 3: Slash Build Times with Gatsby Builds Best Practices"
+date: 2020-04-05
+author: Greg Thomas
+excerpt: "React developer Grant Gladwell tells how he identified best practices for using Gatsby Builds to cut build time for image-heavy websites by a factor of five."
+tags:
+  - gatsby-days
+  - community
+  - performance
+  - drupal
+  - gatsby-cloud
+---
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+_Welcome to the Gatsby Days 2020 Video Blog: Los Angeles Edition. In this series of eleven videos, you can catch up with all the presentations from our February community gathering in LA. If you weren’t able to make it in person, these videos are the next best thing to owning a time machine! (Though owning a time machine would be super cool, joining us at our next Gatsby Days—currently scheduled for October 19th in Amsterdam—would also be pretty awesome)._
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+Grant Gladwell is a React developer dedicated to employing modern technologies in cutting-edge projects. During his time at the digital experience agency Third and Grove, Grant was part of the team that integrated Drupal and Gatsby to create the agency’s fast, yet content-rich website. He also helped build Gatsby Preview + Drupal—a live preview module for Drupal that can be used with Gatsby Cloud.
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+At Gatsby Days LA 2020, Grant focused on performance. After analyzing top Gatsby-based sites, he and his team identified best practices that can help developers achieve blazing fast speeds. Check out this video of Grant’s presentation to discover how Gatsby Builds helped Third and Grove reduce build times for its image-heavy site from about 40 minutes to only 8. And learn how Gatsby’s lazy load components can deliver impressive performance benefits without excessive coding.
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+[![Gatsby Days LA Video 3: What separates the fastest Gatsby sites from everybody else with Grant Gladwell](https://res.cloudinary.com/marcomontalbano/image/upload/v1585858632/video_to_markdown/images/youtube--xMorT50I0cw-c05b58ac6eb4c4700831b2b3070cd403.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMorT50I0cw "Gatsby Days LA Video 3: What separates the fastest Gatsby sites from everybody else with Grant Gladwell")

docs/blog/2020-04-06-LA-2020-Gordon/index.md

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+title: "Gatsby Days LA 2020 Video 4: Methodologies for Building Highly Dynamic WordPress Sites Using Gatsby"
+date: 2020-04-06
+author: Greg Thomas
+excerpt: "What are the best options for integrating comments and other dynamic elements into your WordPress website? Zac Gordon evaluates key approaches."
+tags:
+  - gatsby-days
+  - community
+  - performance
+  - drupal
+  - gatsby-cloud
+---
+
+_Welcome to the Gatsby Days 2020 Video Blog: Los Angeles Edition. In this series of eleven videos, you can catch up with all the wit and wisdom shared at the presentations from our February community gathering in LA. If you weren’t able to make it in person, these videos are the next best thing to owning a time machine! (Though owning a time machine would be super cool for sure, joining us at our next Gatsby Days—currently scheduled as a virtual event June 2nd-4th—would be pretty awesome, too 💜. Follow [Gatsby on Twitter](https://twitter.com/gatsbyjs) to keep up with when registration starts, speaker announcements and other developments)._
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+Zac Gordon is a community builder at [Strattic](https://www.strattic.com/) the serverless WordPress host Strattic and an educator who has taught courses on building with JavaScript and Gatsby in WordPress for high schools, colleges, bootcamps, and online learning sites. He is particularly excited to discuss ways the evolving [content mesh](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2018-10-04-journey-to-the-content-mesh/) is pushing WordPress and the web forward by enabling developers to capitalize on best-of-breed microservices.
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+At Gatsby Days LA 2020, Zac explored developer options for building highly dynamic, rich WordPress sites. First focusing on ways to incorporate comments into sites, Zac examined native, custom coding, and SaaS approaches. Learn the pros and cons of each option and discover what similar options exist for implementing additional dynamic elements, including forms, memberships, and e-commerce capabilities to websites.
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+[![Gatsby Days LA Video 4: Using Gatsby to Build Highly Dynamic WordPress Sites, with Zac Gordon](https://res.cloudinary.com/marcomontalbano/image/upload/v1585860921/video_to_markdown/images/youtube--O22FNh8XXT8-c05b58ac6eb4c4700831b2b3070cd403.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O22FNh8XXT8 "Gatsby Days LA Video 4: Using Gatsby to Build Highly Dynamic WordPress Sites, with Zac Gordon")