It’s difficult to categorize the sprawling event that will be Acquia Engage Europe, which will be taking place on the 17th & 18th June at the Royal Gardens Hotel in Kensington, London. This conference will bring together technologists, creatives, analysts, marketers, practitioners, and others in the wide world of digital experience. The breadth of participants is not surprising, when you think about how much goes into crafting and executing a compelling digital…

Migrations are not always a walk in the park and, as we have already seen in previous articles, they may need a lot of planning. If we are talking about moving from big versions (namely Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 to Drupal 8), just talking about infrastructure can cause you to start to sweat. Even in Drupal itself, the truth is (or was until recently) migrations were not fully stable and they could give you more than a headache. On top of that, building the local…

I've been interested for some time in this whole idea of decoupling Drupal and decoupled architectures: collecting links, ideas, videos, and anything that I considered useful. Here is my list. I hope you find something useful, maybe not :-). Question: Decoupling Drupal… Wait, What? Why? When? In a few words, decoupling is good because: It unleashes cutting edge front-end technologies. This is important because these front-end technologies are constantly accelerating…

Pattern Lab with Drupal CMS What is Pattern Lab? As we encounter many frameworks and languages around us, we observe some of the basic "object oriented" and "design patterns" principles and rules being implemented. For example, there's “inheritance,” which is inheriting the property of one component or module and extending it, making it reusable across our application. "Decoupled" architecture is another principle, where in each component is independent of other…