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

18 February, 2020
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...
2 July, 2014
Trabajando con Drupal, Search API y Solr
Recopilación sobre documentación sobre el uso de Search API y Solr en Drupal.
15 June, 2017
DrupalCamp Spain 2017: Search API Solr en Drupal 8
Bases prácticas para encontrar lo buscado usando Search API y Search API Solr
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
3 December, 2024
A content manager on steroids: combine Drupal with AI to create content efficiently
This guide provides detailed instructions to install and configure the OpenAI module in Drupal, integrating it with CKEditor to leverage artificial intelligence capabilities during content editing.
- Manuel Bermúdez
- Olalla Rodicio
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
18 September, 2025
Aljibe: quality and testing for Drupal developments with DDEV
Aljibe is a set of testing tools and best practices built on top of DDEV to help you develop Drupal projects. Discover all its capabilities and enhance the quality of your projects with ease.
- 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
11 February, 2025
Metadrop monthly update: new Drupal modules, improvements & contributions
A roundup of our latest work to help you build better Drupal sites
- Jorge Tutor
17 June, 2025
Metadrop April 2025: new releases for Drupal ecosystem, privacy and content editorial experience
Highlights from April: privacy, new releases in Drupal ecosystem, research on IA capabilities, helping clients and more.
- Ricardo Sanz

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