Platform Engineering

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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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....