Expert Drupal & Tech Articles

Practical articles and deep dives on Drupal development, AI, web accessibility, DevOps, and software quality from Metadrop's engineering team.

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

  • 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 Alberti

      Eduardo Morales

  • Sevilla Drupal Camp Behat workshop

    At the Drupal Camp in Sevilla, a practical introductory workshop to Behat was offered, which can now also be done at home thanks to the publication of the presentation and the repository with the dev environment to do the exercises.

    • RIcardo Sanz Ante

      Ricardo Sanz

  • VLSuite: web pages in record time

    This article introduces VLSuite, a powerful tool for building websites in Drupal quickly and easily. Designed for users of all experience levels.

    • Antonio Nunez

      Antonio Núñez

  • Scrollytelling using scrollama.js, CSS and best practices

    For some years now, a number of techniques have been quite popular with one thing in common: the introduction of animations or interactions triggered by the user's scrolling through the page. In this article we show you how to implement...

  • Drupal 8, Search API and Solr 8

    We created an easy example to run Drupal 8 with Search API and Solr 8. The current project is released as practical example to setup and run a sandbox environment. We created a git repository with a template to run...

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