Drupal
Drupal Lifecycle Automation
A managed Drupal platform's most valuable feature is rarely the hosting. It is that a developer can ask for an environment and receive one, or roll a release back, without anybody opening a terminal. Replacing that is no...
The Drupal Migration Factory Approach
The word factory does real work here. It is not a claim about scale or speed. It is a claim about where the cost sits: in a factory the expensive part is building the line, and each unit that follows is cheaper than the ...
Enterprise Drupal Reference Architecture
A reference architecture is useful only if it is specific enough to argue with. What follows is a conceptual model for an enterprise Drupal platform, read in the order a request travels, with the decision each layer actu...
Drupal Cutover and Rollback Strategy
The moment a site changes address is the only part of a migration the organization actually experiences. Everything before it is preparation and everything after is stabilization, but the cutover is what gets remembered....
Drupal Backup and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Every organization has backups. Considerably fewer have a demonstrated restore, and the gap between those two facts is where most recovery plans actually fail.
This is about closing that gap for a Drupal estate: what has...
Enterprise Drupal Managed Services
The most common failure in a Drupal modernization program is not technical. It is that the platform is delivered, the project team disperses, and nobody owns it. Six months later patching has drifted, monitoring alerts t...
Replacing a Managed Drupal Platform: What Actually Has to Be Rebuilt
The most expensive assumption in a Drupal platform migration is that you are replacing hosting.
You are not. You are replacing a bundle of operational capabilities that happened to be sold together, most of which became ...
Drupal Observability: Metrics, Logs and Alerting
The reason observability gets its own article rather than a paragraph in an architecture document is a specific and common failure: every infrastructure metric is green and the site is unusable.
That is not an edge case....
Self-Service Platform Operations for Drupal Estates
Here is a way a technically successful migration is judged a failure.
The new platform is better in every measurable respect: cheaper per site, properly monitored, backed up, patched, with security gates in the pipeline....
Drupal Cloud Security Architecture
Organizations moving off a managed Drupal platform frequently discover, during the first audit after the move, that the platform's controls were the controls. The web application firewall, the transport security, some ac...