Drupal & Tech Articles by Metadrop

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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

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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
1 August, 2023
Drupal Dev Days Vienna and the future of Drupal
Let's explore some the sessions of the recent Drupal Dev Days Vienna an talk about the present and future or Drupal, some fears about the IAs and what exactly this event is.
- Ricardo Sanz
27 January, 2017
Utilities for Behat 3.x "tips & tricks"
Article with some tricks that will help us to understand and improve our knowledge about Behat.
11 March, 2025
How dark mode enhances usability, accessibility, and energy efficiency
Dark mode, or dark theme, is moving from being a niche preference to a widespread expectation, as it has native support in major operating systems and is experiencing exponential adoption on websites. More than just a visually appealing trend, dark...
- Fran Rouco
10 September, 2025
NPM compromised: you are probably not at risk
NPM has been compromised, what are the real risks?
- Ricardo Sanz
9 January, 2021
DrupalCon Europe 2020
Metadrop was at DrupalCon Europe 2020 talking about self-management on remote environments and reactive programming.
- Ricardo Sanz
13 July, 2023
Drupal Dev Days Vienna 2023 is next week!
Drupal Dev Days takes place next week in Vienna, let's explore this event, the Mautic Open Source Marketing Automation tool, the importance of FLOSS and three sessions Metadrop is sharing during the event.
- Ricardo Sanz
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
10 June, 2026
CKEditor5 Markdown: explicit Markdown-to-HTML conversion for Drupal editors
CKEditor5 Markdown is a new Drupal contrib module that adds CKEditor5 toolbar plugin into the toolbar for converting Markdown to HTML on demand.
- Jorge Tutor
15 March, 2017
How to fix "The following module is missing from the file system..." warning messages
How to fix "The following module is missing from the file system..." warning messages
- Root

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