Drupal's collective purpose
When I was on vacation in Italy this summer, I had no internet, which gave me a lot of time to think. Some of that time was spent reflecting on why I do what I do. I have been working on Drupal for over 15 years and on Acquia... More
By Dries Buytaert Posted on Monday, October 3, 2016
Why Website Personalization Is Harder Than You Think
Over the past 3-5 years I’ve been hearing a lot about website personalization. I have battled a lot with personalization over the years, and to be honest, good personalization can be difficult to... More
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Thursday, Sep 22, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Thursday, Sep 22, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
API-first Drupal: Innovating from Digital Experiences to Digital Ecosystems
Recently, Acquia CTO and Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert touted Drupal as the optimal solution for “ambitious digital experiences.” But what constitutes an... More
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Tuesday, Sep 27, 2016
by Preston So
Tuesday, Sep 27, 2016
by Preston So
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State of Drupal presentation (September 2016)
DrupalCon Dublin marked my 28th DrupalCon and #Driesnote presentation. You can watch a recording of my keynote (starting at 23:55) or download a copy of my slides here (185.4 MB).
The first half of the presentation I provided a technical update on Drupal 8. I showcased some of the big changes in Drupal 8.2 such as the settings tray, REST API improvements,... More
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Friday, October 7, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Friday, October 7, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Is Drupal the right choice for my Marketing website?
When you need a website or need to seriously update your existing website, the first thing you should do is evaluate the available website platform options. For smaller sites, it is easy to start digging into pay by the month website vendors like wordpress and wix, but when you need a new business website, who should you look to? Gartner just came out with this annual Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management and the top right quadrant features leaders in the space.... More
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Thursday, October 6, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Acquia Partner Profile: OPIN Software
At Acquia, our partners are an incredible part of our success. In this series, we’ll be profiling some of our premier partners, showcasing who they are and what they do, in their own words.
We had the opportunity to sit with Chris Smith, the CEO and founder of OPIN Software, a Canadian Drupal agency that often partners with Acquia on large-scale projects within government, sports and health care.
“At the beginning, it was just two of us. My role started as a developer, with a sales person by my side. Of course, since then my role has... More
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
by Reena Leone
Thursday, October 6, 2016
by Reena Leone
Looking to Drive Change in Your Company? Acquia Engage May Be The Solution
We’re a little over a month out from Engage, and I couldn’t be more pumped. This year, I’ve been given the honor of running one of our tracks: The Politics of Digital. Given the chaos of the election season, this track couldn’t be more timely. While we won’t be discussing Donald Trump’s tweets or Hillary Clinton’s emails, we will take a deep look at the politics involved in any digital transformation project and how to Get S#%t Done.
Every single session in this track was designed to help anyone embarking on digital transformation within their own organization. One of the sessions is aptly... More
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
by Amanda Nichols
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
by Amanda Nichols
The transformation of Drupal 8 for continuous innovation
In the past, after every major release of Drupal, most innovation would shift to two areas: (1) contributed modules for the current release, and (2) core development work on the next major release of Drupal. This innovation model was the direct result of several long-standing policies, including our culture of breaking backward compatibility between major releases.
In many ways, this approach served us really well. It put strong emphasis on big architectural changes, for a cleaner, more modern, and more flexible codebase. The downsides... More
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Machine Learning's Not Magic, but It Can Work Wonders
There’s a fairly common tendency to use the word “magic” when talking about Machine Learning (ML). In some ways this word is appropriate given the amazing feats being accomplished using ML techniques, but in other ways it’s an unfortunate choice of words as it suggests these things are impossible for us to understand. If we believe that, then we can also be led to believe that “anything’s possible” when it comes to ML, and we lose our ability to be skeptical about claims being made about it.
The “anything’s possible” idea can also lead to unwarranted... More
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Monday, September 26, 2016
by Katherine Bailey
Monday, September 26, 2016
by Katherine Bailey
4 Weeks, 4 Events - Where’s Drupal in mid-2016?
Drupal is way more than websites and our community is thriving and making a difference all around the world. That’s the shortest way I can sum it up.
4 Weeks, 4 Events
It’s September, 2016 and DrupalCon Dublin is on next week! In the last four weeks, I’ve had the privilege of visiting and speaking at Drupal “SaunaCamp” Helsinki, Drupal Camp Costa Rica, and Drupal Camp Ghent. I was also part of the team of Acquians and Acquia-partners at ... More
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
by Jeffrey McGuire
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
by Jeffrey McGuire
Sneak Peek: A Look at Our Upcoming Blog Refresh
In last week’s blog I talked about our iterative design and development approach, so this week I wanted to show this method in practice and share a recent project that I’ve been working on: refreshing the blog section of our website.
Why are we redesigning our blog?
A lot has happened in our blog strategy since the last time we updated the design. The current blog design was done about 2 years ago with a very different plan and target... More
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Acquia Announces Launch of Acquia Cloud Site Factory Stacks
Acquia is proud to announce the release of a new, breakthrough capability within Acquia Cloud Site Factory. Available today, Acquia Cloud Site Factory Stacks brings ubiquitous multisite delivery, management and control, empowering different brands, regions, and teams to manage their own digital experiences.
Acquia’s solution for multisite management is now the industry’s only digital experience platform that can deliver strong governance along with the flexibility to support multiple development teams, multiple... More
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
by David Butler
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
by David Butler
Engage 2016: A Peek at This Year's Talk Tracks
The beginning of September marks not only the end of summer for most, but the beginning of Engage season! With less than two months to go until our annual customer conference, we’re kicking things into high gear.
We’ve got some great speakers lined up — including Dan Lyons, author of the book Disrupted, and Filippo Catalano, Chief Digital Operations Officer at Nestle — and our full agenda is now available online for a peek into what your an expect this year.
This week, I’m... More
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Friday, September 9, 2016
by Taryn Collins
Friday, September 9, 2016
by Taryn Collins
JIRA for Marketers: How It Works and Why We Picked It
What’s your plan for managing your enterprise content creation strategy? If it’s “attempt to keep track of everything in a spreadsheet,” you’re going to have some problems — trust me, I’ve tried!
It’s a given that large enterprise organizations produce and maintain a large library of assets, but implementing and maintaining a system to keep the process of creating and managing it can be a major challenge. About a year ago, we determined we needed to better handle our content management woes. With an expanding marketing team and an even faster growing global company, we were really struggling... More
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
by Taryn Collins
Thursday, September 8, 2016
by Taryn Collins
Iterative Design and Development: Update Your Site Without Doing a Redesign
Amazon’s website looks completely different than it did a few years ago, but did you ever notice it changing? I think they do the best job at making small adjustments over a long period of time. This means they avoid killing user experience and make site adjustments manageable for their business. Not only does completing a full site redesign kills your web team’s velocity, but it can also be very intimidating and costly for large enterprises.
At Acquia, we implement a similar approach but we also mold it to fit our business. We call it Iterative Design and Development. Our approach is simple... More
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
The Time is Now
As I near the one year anniversary of my arrival at our regional headquarters in Sydney, I had a moment last week where, despite 3.5 years at Acquia HQ, l was reminded about the journey Drupal (and Acquia) has had around the world.
It’s easy to think that a certain technology reaches a critical mass at a certain point everywhere, especially when it’s used by some of the world’s globally leading organisations, especially in your own country. However, I found myself again on a learning curve about the kind of help, questions, and objectives that organisations in Australia need and have as they... More
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
by Tahlor DiCicco
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
by Tahlor DiCicco
Who sponsors Drupal development?
There exist millions of Open Source projects today, but many of them aren't sustainable. Scaling Open Source projects in a sustainable manner is difficult. A prime example is OpenSSL, which plays a critical role in securing the internet. Despite its importance, the entire OpenSSL development team is relatively small, consisting of 11 people, 10 of whom are volunteers. In 2014, security researchers discovered an important security bug... More
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: A Primer
The technology press is abuzz these days with stories about Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) — every other week it seems we’re hearing about a new AI surpassing human ability at some task or other, and just as often we hear about exciting new start-ups revolutionizing traditional problem spaces using machine learning. We also see the odd notable... More
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
by Katherine Bailey
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
by Katherine Bailey
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