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Drupal-powered Justice.gov sustains traffic surge from Mueller report post

By Dries on

On the day that the Drupal-powered Justice.gov website released Special Counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report on Russian interference in the U.S. election, the site experienced a 7,000% increase in traffic.
The report was successfully delivered without interruption via Acquia, using Drupal. 

Drupal 8.7.0 is available

By Gábor Hojtsy on

This release introduces powerful features that will help us all take Drupal to a whole new level. The new stable JSON:API core module as well as the intuitive and accessible stable Layout Builder are game-changing.

Welcoming Heather Rocker as Drupal Association Executive Director

By Dries on

The Drupal Association is announcing that Heather Rocker, former CEO of Girls, Inc. and Executive Director of Women in Technology, is joining as its next Executive Director.

State of Drupal presentation (April 2019)

By Dries on

Recently many Drupalists gathered in Seattle for DrupalCon North America, for what was the largest DrupalCon in history.

As a matter of tradition, I presented my State of Drupal keynote.

How to prepare for Drupal 9

By Dries on

Upgrading from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 should be easy if you regularly check for and remove the use of deprecated code.

The privilege of free time in Open Source

By Dries on

Open Source communities often incorrectly believe that everyone can contribute. Unfortunately, not everyone has equal amounts of free time to contribute.

JSON:API lands in Drupal core

By Dries on

Drupal core now provides an out-of-the-box JSON:API implementation, marking another major milestone toward making Drupal API-first.

The Open Web can still win

By Dries on

Today, the world wide web celebrates its 30th birthday. In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web and changed the lives of millions of people around the globe, including mine.

Regarding critical security patches, we hear your pain.

By Drupal on

This post was created jointly by Michael Hess of the Security Working Group, and Tim Lehnen, Executive Director of the Drupal Association.

Headless CMS: REST vs JSON:API vs GraphQL

By Dries on

We compare three different web services implementations based on request efficiency, operational simplicity, API discoverability, and more.

Findings: Instead of adding both JSON:API and GraphQL to Drupal 8 core, I believe only JSON:API should be added. That said, Drupal's GraphQL implementation is fantastic, especially when you have the developer capacity to build a bespoke API for your project.

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