Developers have embraced Drupal for many reasons: its powerful open source framework; support from the best developer community in the world; and the vast ecosystem of integrations and partners, just to name a few.  What it’s not known for is its ease of getting up and running in support of your developer workflows quickly and easily, with a minimum of effort. That’s why we built Acquia Lightning. Lightning is an open source Drupal distribution that addresses the differences between the capabilities Drupal core provides and the needs we commonly see working with thousands of customers to build, launch, and maintain Drupal sites every day.  Acquia Lightning helps get new Drupal projects up and running quickly by providing a developer-focused feature set built around a modern development workflow. In this session, we’ll show you how Lightning paired with Acquia’s developer tools helps teams focus on the interesting challenges that matter, by solving for the typical problems that end up taking time to address over and over in nearly every project. We’ll also demonstrate how a best-in-class developer workflow with Acquia Cloud and Lightning can help you build better applications faster. By focusing on key components like Media, Layout, Workflow and API, Acquia Lightning supports developer tools and processes that help you build better applications faster. Finally, we’ll reveal where we’re headed to make the developer experience even better, and how we’ve built our team to ensure we maintain an innovation cycle that feeds back in to Drupal core.