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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.

10 September, 2025
Solr9 upgrade on Acquia
Discover how to perform a self-service upgrade to Solr 9 in Acquia environments. This guide covers key changes, Drupal configuration with custom configsets, and the step-by-step process to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
- Fran Rouco
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
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
22 October, 2026
Drupal CLI in core finally landed in 11.4, how and why we got here
Drupal 11.4 includes dr, an experimental command-line interface in core that discovers Symfony Console commands from core and contrib modules. The article explains why Drupal needs an internal CLI, why the attempts of 2014 and 2019 stalled, and which changes...
- Jorge Tutor
- Ricardo Sanz
2 July, 2014
Trabajando con Drupal, Search API y Solr
Recopilación sobre documentación sobre el uso de Search API y Solr en Drupal.
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
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