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Everything published here comes from production work: the open source projects we maintain on drupal.org and github.com, the migrations, upgrades, and audits we deliver for top clients, and regular successes and failures.

5 September, 2018
Cómo sobrellevar GDPR en Drupal
Pautas para poder cumplir GDPR en una web construida con Drupal y así evitar el dolor de cabeza que conlleva.
- Eduardo Morales
12 November, 2024
Drupal Camp 2024 in Benidorm
Summary and Highlights of Drupal Camp Spain 2024 in Benidorm.
- Ricardo Sanz
29 May, 2025
The Impact of bot traffic on websites and how to mitigate It
Bot-generated traffic on the internet has grown significantly, negatively impacting website performance and increasing operational costs. This rise is driven by the growth of artificial intelligence, the spread of crawlers used to train models, and the increase in malicious bots...
- Luis Ruiz
- Fran Rouco
23 January, 2025
How to extend and improve Drupal's log system using Monolog
Find out why Drupal's log system can sometimes produce performance issues or be limited, and discover how Monolog can solve this problem.
- Eduardo Morales
11 May, 2023
Understand your project's site structure and data with Xray Audit
At Metadrop, we regularly work on complex projects such as multisites with over 20 sites, numerous contributed and custom-installed modules, various types of profiles, and where Config Split is used for configuration management. Dealing with this complexity can be challenging...
- Luis Ruiz
1 September, 2025
Migrating Drupal from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8
Notes on migrating a Drupal site from to MySQL 8, things to focus on, different hosting providers and what errors may happen.
- Ricardo Sanz
25 September, 2024
Improving headers in a Drupal site using Dries' HTTP Header Analyzer
How we got 10/10 in the Dries' HTTP Header Analyzer tool.
- Ricardo Sanz