# Talking Drupal #556 - A Chat with Moshe

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Podcast: [Talking Drupal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-drupal-410099)
Published: 2026-06-08T18:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Today we are talking about Drush, Core Contributions, and Drupal's Past with guest Moshe Weitzman. We'll also cover Cache Metrics as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/556 Topics Moshe Updates and Clients Maintaining Drush Long Term Locale Performance Overhaul CLI in Core Initiative Which Commands Make the Cut Roadmap Contrib Commands Moving Commands Technical Hurdles How to Help From AI Initiative DDEV Add-ons for Local CI MySQL Toolkit Database Images Testing With Real Databases Devel Module Status Organic Groups Origins Where Ideas Come From Finding Drupal Early Days Release Cadence And Backward Compatibility Avoiding Maintainer Burnout Maintaining With AI And Xdebug Resources Drush's Final Act Drupal cli issue DDEV addons https://github.com/ddev/ddev-drupal-contrib https://github.com/weitzman/ddev-mtk https://www.drupal.org/project/dtt Guests Moshe Weitzman - weitzman.github.io moshe-weitzman Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted insights into how cache is working on your Drupal site? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: Cache Metrics Brief history How old: created in Oct 2019 by Moshe Weitzman (moshe weitzman), today's guest, a consistent core contributor, a member of the security team, and one of the rare few with a two-digit user id on drupal.org Versions available: 2.0.3, 2.1.0, and 2.2.0, the last of which works with Drupal 8.7.7, 9, 10, and 11 Maintainership Actively maintained Security and test coverage Documentation - in depth README Number of open issues: 2 open issues, 1 of which is a bug, but is mark…

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