Cloud Modernization

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Enterprise Drupal Cloud Modernization: A Complete Guide
Drupal , Cloud Modernization , DevSecOps , Enterprise Architecture
Most organizations do not set out to modernize Drupal. They set out to solve something smaller: a cost line that will not itemize, a deployment that cannot be changed, an integration the runtime is not permitted to reach...
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Managed Drupal Platform vs. Cloud Infrastructure You Control
Drupal , Cloud Modernization , Vendor Lock-In , Enterprise Architecture
This comparison is usually framed as a cost argument, and cost is the least reliable part of it. The honest framing is that the two options trade different things, and which trade is right depends on facts about your org...
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How to Migrate Drupal Off a Proprietary Hosting Platform
Drupal , Cloud Migration , Migration Engineering , Cloud Modernization
The instinct is to start with the destination. Pick a cloud, stand up a server, move a site, see how it goes. That works for one site and fails for an estate, because the thing that makes an estate migration succeed is b...
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Terraform and Infrastructure as Code for Drupal
Drupal , Terraform , Infrastructure as Code , Cloud Modernization
Infrastructure as Code is usually sold on repeatability, which is true and slightly beside the point for an estate migration. The property that actually matters is that the environment becomes reviewable. A change to pro...
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Enterprise Drupal Reference Architecture
Drupal , Enterprise Architecture , Cloud Modernization , 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...
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Drupal Backup and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Drupal , Disaster Recovery , Backup , Cloud Modernization
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...
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Enterprise Drupal Managed Services
Drupal , Managed Services , Platform Operations , Cloud Modernization
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...
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Replacing a Managed Drupal Platform: What Actually Has to Be Rebuilt
Drupal , Cloud Modernization , Platform Engineering , Migration Engineering
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 ...
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