Drupal & Tech Articles by Metadrop

Engineering knowledge from real Drupal projects

Everything published here comes from production work: the contributed modules we maintain on drupal.org, the migrations, upgrades, and audits we deliver for enterprise clients, and the tooling we build to raise quality on every project. We document what we learn so your team can apply it.

Topics we write about regularly:

Drupal development — architecture, contributed modules, upgrades, migrations, and performance
AI and automation — practical AI integrations in Drupal, LLM tooling, and editorial workflows
Web accessibility — WCAG compliance and the European Accessibility Act
DevOps and infrastructure — hosting, CI/CD, local environments, and platform migrations
Software quality — testing strategy, Behat, PHPUnit, and QA tooling

23 November, 2018
Jenkins and Job DSL plugin
Automating processes such as test execution or other frequently used operations can speed up the software development, and tools such as Jenkins and its Job DSL plugin are very useful for this purpose.
- Eduardo Morales
9 October, 2023
Drupal Updater: Streamlining Drupal Maintenance Updates from CLI
Maintaining a Drupal website involves keeping multiple components up to date, including Drupal modules, themes, vendor packages, and external libraries. This article introduces the Drupal Updater, a console tool helper designed to automate the tedious process of updating these components...
- Jorge Tutor
10 June, 2019
Drupal Dev Days 2019 is starting in Cluj Napoca
Today, the main developer event of the Drupal community, Drupal Dev Days, starts in Cluj Napoca, Transylvania. Drupal Dev Days is an international event organized by the Drupal community that brings people together from around the world who contribute to...
- Ricardo Sanz
19 June, 2017
Ensuring software quality: Static code analysers
Static code analysers allow us to audit/measure the state of the project's code in an objective manner.
- Jorge Tutor
10 March, 2021
Composer 2 and Drupal
Composer 2 was released 4 months ago and it is an impressive improvement especially in terms of performance. Drupal is ready to be managed by Composer 2, and you should start using it as soon as possible.
- Ricardo Sanz
20 January, 2017
PhantomJS v2 some useful commands
In this article we show some very useful command to better configure our PhantonJS v2.
25 June, 2019
La experiencia en los Drupal Dev Days de Cluj Napoca 2019
Sistema de gestión de contenidos distribuidos, Drupal 9, sistemas de integración continua, y muchos más han sido los temas de los que se han hablado durante los Drupal Dev Days en Cluj Napoca.
- Omar Lopesino
16 August, 2022
Mocking third-party API in development and test environments
Mocking an API, and therefore not relying on the connection to the third-party service, is useful in development and testing environments.
- Luis Ruiz
29 April, 2025
Metadrop March 2025: content-first publishing, docker speedups, and Drupal evolution
Highlights from a productive month at Metadrop—featuring DevOps tools, new Drupal modules, and a exploring content-centered workflows
- Jorge Tutor
- Ricardo Sanz
18 March, 2025
Metadrop February 2025: Security reinforcements, dark mode expansion & Open Source innovation
A roundup of our latest work to help you build better Drupal sites, February, 2025.
- Jorge Tutor
- Ricardo Sanz

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