Discover the consolidation into Group 4, improvements to the editor experience, the integration of submodules, and the maintenance efforts to keep the module sustainable and high quality. This episode is packed with valuable insights for Drupal developers and enthusiasts looking to understand the evolution of one of Drupal's most powerful tools.

This third episode, continues our discussion into the Insight Supply Chain Framework, a structured approach for organizing your data professionals and teams to ensure insights flow seamlessly throughout your organization.

This discussion focuses on a critical component of the framework: the Data Organization Matrix (DOM). The DOM helps leaders answer a strategic, fundamental question: Is data a core competency of your organization?

Explore how this strategic decision impacts your organizational structure, building upon the previous episode's debate on centralized vs. decentralized data teams. Learn about the four quadrants of the DOM and how they address the need for specialized vs. generalized skills among your data staff.

Tune in to discover:

1. The primary challenge organizations face in leveraging their data.
2. The role of the DOM in organizational strategy.
3. How different business needs may lead to different organizational models within a single company.
4. Why the question of data as a core competency is more important than ever, especially with the rise of AI and data.

This is essential listening for anyone looking to build robust data ecosystems and gain a competitive edge.

Discover the fundamental decision every organization must make: whether to keep all data experts in one centralized team or spread them across the business in a decentralized model. Learn how organizational context, not size, is the critical factor for success and why this framework is essential for building robust career paths that attract and retain top data talent.

Tune in to explore the framework's core principles and set the stage for our next discussion on the Data Organization Matrix (DOM) and the impact of viewing data as a core competency.

Listen now to get the definitive strategy for structuring your data team!

Learn how effective design is a collaborative process—involving stakeholder engagement, competitive analysis, and iterative problem-solving—and why balancing constraints and managing team collaboration are essential to achieving both business and user goals. Discover what effective design truly is and how it drives long-term success.

00:00 Introduction to the Importance of Design

01:48 Meet the Experts: Andrew and Pilar

03:44 Understanding the Role of UX/UI Design

05:53 The Design Process: Research and Ideation

10:00 Collaborative Design and Client Interaction

14:22 Balancing Constraints and Achieving Success

26:27 The Importance of Continuous Improvement

32:02 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Business Intelligence (BI) has been the standard for decades, but it's time for a change. In this insightful podcast episode, Dr. Duru Ahanotu introduces the Insights Supply Chain Framework, a comprehensive new model for modern data strategy.

Learn the origin story of this groundbreaking framework and how it provides a structured, non-capricious way for executives to make critical decisions about their data organization. Discover the key roles, how to structure your team (centralized vs. decentralized), and how to create clear, defined career paths for your data professionals. 

Dr. Ahanotu also tackles the hot topic of how this framework accommodates rapid change and the rise of AI—and why "magic solutions" like conversational analytics won't replace the need for skilled data experts.

Tune in now to understand how to move beyond BI and build a data ecosystem that drives real business value and action.

The episode dives into the details of data migration, from planning and preparation to automated tools, source site audits, and migrating content and configuration. Tune in to gain insights into the intricacies of migrating large-scale Drupal projects and learn about the cutting-edge resources included in the eBook to ensure your data migration is a success. Get your free copy at tag1.com/migrate-book today!

00:00 Introduction and Announcement

02:38 Meet the Migration Experts

03:17 Focus on Data Migration

05:34 Who Should Read the Book?

07:38 Planning and Preparation

11:29 Source Site Audit

19:29 Example Repository and Tooling

22:59 Configuration Migration

28:40 Content Migration

31:28 Motivation and Easter Eggs

34:26 Conclusion and Thanks

In our latest Tag1 Team Talk, we share how modern tools, expert partnerships, and a commitment to excellence can dramatically accelerate your security certification journey. Learn how services and tools from Vanta and expert guidance from BD Emerson made this complex process efficient and manageable. Whether you're thinking about starting your own SOC 2 journey or simply want to understand its impact, this episode offers valuable insights and tips on security, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Welcome to Tag1 Team Talks! In this episode, Michael Meyers, Managing Director at Tag1 Consulting, interviews Nathaniel 'Catch' Catchpole, a prolific contributor to the Drupal platform and Gander Project Lead. Together, they explore Tag1's incorporation of Gander as a foundational element in the next-gen content management systems, developed in collaboration with the Google Chrome team. Learn about Gander's role as Drupal's official performance testing framework and its impact on Drupal core development. Catch shares real-world success stories, dives into the technical workings of Gander, and discusses ongoing and future performance optimizations. From reducing JavaScript load sizes to improving cache performance, Catch offers invaluable insights into making Drupal faster and more efficient. Don't miss this in-depth exploration of Gander and its transformative impact on Drupal CMS!

00:00 Introduction to Tag1 Team Talks

00:35 Meet Nathaniel Catchpole: Gander Project Lead

01:40 Introduction to Gander: Drupal's Performance Testing Framework

01:57 How Gander Works: Technical Insights

04:49 Gander's Impact on Drupal Core Development

07:16 Real-World Success Stories with Gander

16:59 Recent Developments and Improvements in Gander

23:51 Future Roadmap for Gander

33:38 How to Get Involved with Gander

34:30 Conclusion

Learn about the latest security updates, the seamless upgrade path to CKEditor 5, our SOC 2 attestation, and our strategic partnership with Pantheon.

Dive deep into how Tag1 plans to keep Drupal 7 sites secure and reliable despite the official discontinuation. For more details and updates, be sure to visit d7es.tag1.com.

Topics Covered:

• Drupal 7 End-of-Life (EOL) in January 2025 and what it means for your website.
• How CKEditor 4’s end-of-life creates security risks and how CKEditor 5 addresses them.
• FREE CKEditor 5 support is offered by Tag1 to all Tag1 D7ES users.
• A seamless migration process that takes minutes with zero content disruption.
• Benefits of CKEditor 5: Security, modern features, enhanced UI, and future-proofing for Drupal 10+ migrations.
• Custom plugin migrations and Tag1’s professional service support that uses custom AI-driven tooling to reduce effort.

Tag1 Consulting is the only organization with proven experience in extended support for Drupal, ensuring secure and reliable solutions for your website.

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In this team talk, we introduce Tag1's Drupal 7 Extended Support service, a solution that allows you to keep your Drupal 7 site secure and up-to-date beyond 2025. Listen as Jeremy Andrews, Founder and CEO of Tag1, discusses this crucial service with Michael Meyers. With Tag1's deep involvement in Drupal development since version 3 and their successful track record of providing long-term support for Drupal 6, they bring unparalleled expertise to extend Drupal 7's lifespan. 

Whether you're a site owner looking to extend the life of your current setup or a developer supporting Drupal 7 clients, this talk is packed with essential information you can't afford to miss. Watch now to discover how you can protect your Drupal 7 investment and buy yourself more time for future planning, backed by the team that has been instrumental in Drupal's evolution.

The series is a step-by-step guide addressing complex and costly aspects of the data migration process, supported by a local DDEV environment setup. Furthermore, it addresses common challenges and provides insights into lesser-known options and techniques for a successful Drupal data migration.

Randy also demos DDEV, showcasing how quickly and easy it is to set up a local Drupal development environment quickly. Additionally, he touches upon the history and future of DDEV, and the critical role of the DDEV user community in both supporting the project and shaping it’s development.

Adam gives a comprehensive overview. INP focuses on measuring the responsiveness of web pages to user inputs, aiming to capture the quality of interactions beyond just loading times. A good INP score is defined as 200 milliseconds or less, with a particular emphasis on mobile performance due to the variability in device capabilities and network conditions. Adam highlighted the shift from First Input Delay (FID) to INP, noting that INP offers a more comprehensive measure of interactivity throughout the entire lifecycle of a page, he also presented data showing the current performance of Drupal sites in relation to Core Web Vitals, emphasizing the importance of focusing on mobile optimization and the impact of INP on future web performance metrics.

Don’t miss expert insights on navigating this significant web development shift.

Don't miss this opportunity to see Gander in action and learn how easy it is to extend and apply its benefits to your Drupal projects today. Join us on Tag1 Team Talks for a deep dive into the future of Drupal performance optimization!

This episode offers a rich exploration of the evolving media landscape in Drupal, addressing key challenges in migrating both local and remote media, as well as inline embedded content. Our guests also share practical tips on efficient file transfer using Rsync, managing extensive file libraries, and overcoming specific hurdles in remote media migrations and cloud storage options like S3.

This episode is an invaluable resource for anyone embarking on a Drupal migration journey, packed with expert anecdotes, real-world examples, and problem-solving strategies from their own migration experiences. Get ready to enhance your knowledge and skills in Drupal migrations, especially in handling complex media and file transfers.

Don't miss out – listen in and arm yourself with the expertise to master your Drupal migration challenges!

At the heart of our discussion, the essence of performance optimization isn't lost as our experts explain the magic behind handling one entity at a time during migration. The conversations are peppered with insights that make the daunting migration task feel like a breeze.

We also feature upcoming engaging talks aimed at easing the community's transition from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10. Dive in! This will will be an enlightening ride filled with hearty laughs and profound takeaways!

Dive into the core of the Drupal community's Sustainability Initiative. Learn how to become an integral part of this movement, contribute to the conversation, and how to effectively use the new #sustainability tag in the Drupal issue queue. In this episode, we also discuss Gander, Tag1's innovative automated performance testing tool for Drupal. Gander enhances Drupal core's efficiency and aligns with sustainability goals by optimizing web performance for a greener digital footprint. 

Whether you're a Drupal enthusiast, a web developer, or someone passionate about our planet's future, this episode is packed with enlightening discussions and actionable insights.

This podcast series is a deep dive into the mechanics and challenges of Drupal migration, and this episode addresses the crucial role of the transform transformation phase. Here, data is reshaped and prepared for its new home in Drupal. The experts discuss performance considerations, stressing the impact of transformation efficiency on the overall migration timeline. They also explore Drupal-specific nuances, offering practical tips and strategies for a smooth transition.

Beyond just insights, the episode dives in with practical experiences and unique scenarios in data migration. It also delves into the historical context of ETL, providing a comprehensive perspective. This series covers various topics for those interested in learning the details and further enhancing their migration skills, including performance tuning and incremental migrations. We encourage you to listen, subscribe, and stay updated with all the episodes in the series.

In this two-part series, Mariano Crivello chats with Nat Catchpole and Michael Meyers to uncover the project's history, key benefits, and its role in making the internet faster. Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to performance testing, Gander aims to make the testing process more accessible and impactful. Join us as we explore the journey of Gander and learn how it can elevate your Drupal experience!

In this episode of our Drupal Migration series, we help answer the question, “How much will my migration cost?” Spoiler alert: It’s complicated. Our hosts, Michael Meyers and Janez Urevc, team up with Lucas Hedding to help demystify the complexities of estimating your project. They delve into unexpected variables that could shake up your budget and reveal why Quality Assurance is more than just a checkbox.

In this episode, the hosts are again joined by Drupal Expert Lucas Hedding, and they dive into the complex world of estimating Drupal migrations. The discussion aims to answer the often-asked question: "How much will my platform migration cost?" The team outlines that there's no one-size-fits-all answer, and the process involves a variety of methodologies. Some methods can produce quick but potentially less accurate estimates, while others are more labor-intensive but yield more reliable results.

The conversation also covers how we approach our estimating process, employing a blend of bottom-up, three-point, and parametric methodologies.

Listen in to learn more!

Whether you're just starting out or are knee-deep in the process, we've got tips you can act on. In this episode, we focus on different upgrade strategies and give you the lowdown on how to estimate the time and effort involved.

#Drupal #Migration #Decisionmaking

As Drupal 7 and 9 approach their end-of-life, it's the perfect time to get cozy with the ins and outs of migration. This friendly chat promises to be a beacon demystifying migration jargon and sharing some golden nuggets on best practices to arm you for the deeper dives planned in the upcoming episodes.

#Drupal #webdevelopment #migrations

His migration story serves as a valuable lesson on the importance of not only executing technical migrations successfully but also managing user adoption and handling challenges related to team dynamics and leadership.

The episode highlights the significance of planning, communication, and a well-structured approach to ensure the success of migration projects. The lessons learned from this experience can benefit organizations planning similar transitions.

Stay tuned for more insightful discussions on migration, Drupal, and other topics in the Tag1 Team Talk series.

As part of our 20 years of Drupal series, Tag1 Consulting's Managing Director, Michael Meyers, interviews leaders from the Drupal Community who have been instrumental in creating one of the largest open-source communities and one of the most popular Content Management Systems that powers over 3% of the Internet.

Listen to a fascinating chat between our Michael Meyers, Fabian Franz, and Luca Lusso, Lead Developer at SparkFabrik, as they dive into one of Luca's latest module contributions.

Luca is a maintainer of both modules, Web Profiler, Devel, and 32 others. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Luca demonstrates how Web Profiler is currently working in the latest D10 beta and discusses some new features, like the inclusion of Google's Core Web Vitals, that he's polishing up for the Drupal 10 version of Web Profiler. 

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Tag1’s 20 years of Drupal series continues with Alex Ross (bleen | Drupal.org), Sr. Director of Software Engineering at NBC Universal. Alex’s long experience with Drupal starts like many others - where he fell into it almost by accident. From his beginnings as a ‘dumpster diver’ in the issue queue, to becoming an organizer for Drupal Camp NYC, Alex has contributed to Drupal and the community in significant ways.

Join Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers as he and Alex talk about the history of NYC Drupal Camp, Alex’s journey with and beyond Drupal, and the ups and downs of the changes that have come to Drupal over the last 20 years. You’ll also hear about being a module owner and maintainer, and get a first-hand account of working with the Drupal Security team!

Greg is Director of Strategy at Lullabot. In this podcast, he and Michael talk about building slot and pinball machines, Greg’s early experiences and the Drupal project, how things have changed, and the future of Drupal. 

They’ll cover the extension of official support for Drupal 7, and the decision to officially end the Drupal 6 Long Term Support (D6LTS) program. Join us now to learn more!

As part of our 20 years of Drupal series of Tag1 Team Talks, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Jody about her long experience from an intern, to developer, then to agency co-owner. They also get into Jody’s career evolution, including her move from Drupal business owner to Senior Digital Business Analyst at Renesas Electronics. Join us today to learn more about Jody’s experience, and where she thinks Drupal should go next. 

Tag1 Consulting Managing Director Michael Meyers interviews Dawn about her time in open source software as a non-developer, and how that has shaped her career path. Not only is Dawn a strategist and product manager, she is a Certified Scrum Product Owner. Join us today for this different perspective on Drupal, Drupal projects, and being part of the community.

Anello is a driver of the DrupalEasy podcast, one of the longest-running and most prolific podcasts in the Drupal community. He’s also been a core system maintainer for the Migrate module and has vast experience throughout the project. Join us today to learn more.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Senior Engineer and Project Lead Scott Hadfield. Learn about the business Scott launched with his wife Sam Marx, Hello Pretty. Find out why they’re staying on Drupal 7 and joining the Extended Support (D7ES) program.

Hello Pretty provides opportunities for South African handcrafters to display and sell their work, enabling these crafters to reach a worldwide audience. 

Tag1's Michael Meyers interviews ‘schnitzel’ in this latest edition of our special series of Tag1 Team Talks reviewing 20 years of Drupal. Michael Schmid’s contributions, from code to advancements in site building, to helping build a successful company, has helped drive Drupal’s continued success. 

This session of our 20 years of Drupal series features Angie, as she talks with Tag1 's Michael Meyers. Angie’s career spans from college where she was a Google Summer of Code participant getting her start in Drupal, to Lullabot, to Acquia where she was tasked with doing the work she’d been doing informally for years, to her current position at MongoDB. When Drupalists say “Come for the code, stay for the community”, Angie is one of the key people that have made the community what it is. 

Using a standard Drupal 9 Umami installation, Fabian shows how these packages can make it faster and easier for developers to make changes, without using JavaScript. He’ll explain why he chooses Preact and HTM, along with Tailwind, and how they’re faster for his purposes than other systems.

In this edition of our 20 Years of Drupal series, Fred talks with Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers. They’ll discuss Drupal, commerce, and Fred’s journey of discovering Drupal around DrupalCon Paris, to today - with two flourishing companies under his leadership. You’ll also learn more about how and why Platform.sh split off, and how Commerce Guys changed with that split.

Join us for this Tag1 Team Talk with Tag1 VP of Software Engineering Fabian Franz as he talks with Managing Director Michael Meyers about the complexities of development today. Fabian’s extensive experience with development, especially in the performance and scalability space, gives him a specialized insight into how changes in tooling have changed how developers work and create applications. 

In this installment of our 20 years of Drupal series, David joins Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers to talk about his experience in making contributions - not just up front contributions like Bakery, but the ones he considers even more important - the behind the scenes performance enhancements and integrations that have helped make Drupal what it is today. David’s leadership in modules at the forefront of as well as critical back-end improvements show all the ways that people can add to the community.

Robert’s mentoring and leadership have been a crucial part of the continuing success of Drupal. In this Tag1 Team Talk in our 20 years of Drupal series, Robert joins Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers to talk about his array of experiences, from writer and editor, to developer, to product director - everyone has something to learn from Robert’s time in open source. 

In this second part of our Core Confidential Tag1 Team Talk with Drupal Security Team member Michael Hess, Tag1's Michael Meyers asks these questions and more.

Learn what the security team does, and doesn’t do when a software version is out of community support, and how you can get help if you aren’t ready to move to Drupal 9. You’ll also learn how the security team works with Drupal extended support vendors like Tag1 Consulting.

James joins Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers for another walk down the halls of Drupal history, from early versions of Drupal to today’s highly experienced agencies.  James’ initial Drupal experience was with Georgia Public Broadcasting. Over the years, James has worked with many clients - some of whom moved to Drupal from their homegrown CMS, to major launches such as weather.com. Join us for this talk, and learn more about how it’s not just the code - it’s the community that makes Drupal successful. 

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers is joined by Drupal Security Team member Michael Hess. In this installment, they’ll talk about what the Security Team does, who does it, and how. They will also differentiate between the Security Team and the Working Group, and how their responsibilities overlap but are not the same.

If you’ve ever reported a security issue or wondered how security reports are handled, this talk explains it all. If you’ve ever considered joining the Drupal security team, get insider information on how that happens, here.

In this test, Goose found a problem with Drupal’s Quick Edit feature. Quick Edit is a staple of content creators, enabling them to make changes directly in content, even if that content is wrapped in blocks or other Drupal layout features.

Once again, join Goose creator and CEO of Tag1 Consulting Jeremy Andrews, VP of Software Engineering and Goose contributor Fabian Franz, and Managing Director Michael Meyers as they dig into the results of a Goose Attack, and how this Goose test found something that other analyses did not. 

In this Tag1 Team Talk, we continue to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Drupal. Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers is joined by Josh Koenig. Long-time Drupal community members will know Josh as one of the founders of ChapterThree, and more recently as a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Pantheon.

In this talk, Josh and Michael go back into the history of Drupal, where Josh got started, and how ChapterThree and then Pantheon were formed to meet the needs of Drupal users.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers interviews Nik Graf, the founder of Serenity Notes. Nik has worked for and with Tag1 on many occasions, and is a regular guest on our Tag1 Team Talks program. He’s also a regular contributor to open source projects, as an organizer of ReasonConf, a board member of the ReScript Language Association, and the co-creator of DraftJS Plugins, along with many other projects. 

In part 2 of our Tag1 Team Talk with the APQC, Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with John Tesmer, the Executive Director of Information Technology, and Jim Gillilan, Senior Architect and Lead of the Technology team at APQC, about their migration to Drupal 9, and their future plans.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, John Tesmer, the Executive Director of Information Technology, and Jim Gillilan, Senior Architect and Lead of the Technology team at APQC, join Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers to talk about what the APQC does, and how technology plays a critical role in their mission. They’ll also talk about the organization’s history with Drupal, and how they’re moving forward with newer versions.

Jeremy is the creator of Goose and Fabian is a major contributor to the project. In this demonstration, Jeremy and Fabian run a Goose test simulating 1200 users using the Umami profile for Drupal 9, on a R5N 8x large EC2 instance. Join us to see how Goose performs with multiple types of users, and how and why we use New Relic to troubleshoot issues as Goose pinpoints them.

For more Goose content, see Goose Podcasts, Blogs, Presentations, & more!

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers is joined by Matt Glaman, maintainer of Drupal-check. Drupal-check, based on PHPstan, is a static analysis tool for checking Drupal code for bugs and deprecations. Matt has been working on Generating sustainable development funding for phpstan-drupal, and in this discussion, he outlines the struggles of being an independent developer or contractor working on projects the community uses, but doesn’t necessarily financially support. 

In this final talk in our series of live demonstrations of Goose, Narayan and Fabian break down how some of the methods used in part  2 weren’t ideal, and some ways to make spinning up load tests more efficient and fast.

For more Goose content, see Goose Podcasts, Blogs, Presentations, & more!

Built on #DecoupledDrupal and #Metalsmith as a #StaticSiteGenerator, the Department of Veterans' Affairs website is one of the most compelling and robust examples of a powerful decoupled #Drupal architecture serving #StaticSites and #Jamstack-driven deployment. Plus it uses #GraphQL to mediate the back-and-forth communication between Drupal and the VA.gov static site.

In this Tag1 Team Talks episode with Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 Consulting), Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1 Consulting), and special guest Neil Hastings (Tech Lead for the Core CMS team at VA.gov), learn more about how the VA.gov website offers functionality not just for its core users but also for content editors and even outside developers, thanks to its open government focus and Lighthouse APIs for developer-contributed applications.

CEO Jeremy Andrews, the creator of Goose; Fabian Franz, VP of Software Engineering;  CTO Narayan Newton, and Managing Director Michael Meyers demonstrate running a Goose Gaggle and discuss how variations on these load test change testing results, and what you can expect from a Gaggle. Our goal is to prove to you that Goose is both the most scalable load testing framework currently available, and the easiest to scale.

Narayan is a key member of the Drupal.org infrastructure team, responsible for ensuring the site stays up under load or attack. Load testing is a critical part of ensuring Drupal.org, or any website’s continued success.

For more Goose content, see Goose Podcasts, Blogs, Presentations, & more!

In this team talk, our load test runs in AWS and we're testing against Drupal 9 with the default Unami install against a Tag1 Kubernetes cluster fronted by the Fastly CDN. These tests start with a limited set of user functions, and we’ll ramp up from 1,000 users up to 8,000 simultaneous users and show you how performance changes.

For more Goose content, see Goose Podcasts, Blogs, Presentations, & more!

As voice interfaces become more ubiquitous, it’s necessary to content strategies, architectures, and design approaches to account for this growing access method. 

In this Tag1 Team Talks episode, Michael Meyers (Business Director at Tag1) talks with Preston So (Editor in Chief, Tag1 Consulting and Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle) about how Ask GeorgiaGov, the first voice interface for residents of the state of Georgia and among the earliest content-drive voice interfaces in existence, came to life.

Giving our content a voice requires a mindset for new conduits of audio and orality. When navigation becomes negotiation, when leafing through becomes listening through, and when fixtures of the web like links, breadcrumbs, and calls to action become a matter of verbal, not visual, affordance, how do we need to adjust our content strategy and design? In this Tag1 Team Talks episode, we sit down with Preston So (Editor in Chief, Tag1 Consulting and Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle) to discuss the promising new world of voice content, how it fits into existing content strategy and content management paradigms, and how Ask GeorgiaGov, the first voice interface for residents of the state of Georgia and among the earliest content-drive voice interfaces in existence, came to life.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Karyn Cassio, a long time Drupal community member, and current DevOps Engineer at DaVita. One of the most widely known names in health care for kidney dialysis, DaVita has more than 2,600 clinics. Enabling patients to obtain care while maintaining their normal lives is a company goal. Please join us and learn more about how DaVita is employing DevOps principles to help patients and clinicians achieve better care more easily.

Emma Jane Hogbin of OCHA joins Managing Director Michael Meyers in this Tag1 Team Talk on OCHA, what it does, and how OCHA works to ensure humanitarian groups have the information they need to quickly respond to disaster. Emma Jane is a long-time Drupal community member and has authored multiple books on Drupal and Git. 

Join Emma Jane and Michael as they talk about what OCHA does, their role in humanitarian disaster response, and how their office is streamlining technology to aid teams on the ground

Laravel’s strengths include a strong push towards reusable components. This methodology enables developers and designers to take advantage of using the things they need and leave everything else behind. Laravel-based stacks enable website builders to more easily switch from developer to designer, and back. 

Application development in Laravel is growing rapidly. Integrations with other software are common, and they’re bringing tools together that help developers work together more smoothly and efficiently. VILT (Vue.js, Inertia, Laravel, TailwindCSS) and TALL (TailwindCSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, Livewire) combinations really start to highlight the potential of these packages in concert. 

In this special edition of our 20 years of Drupal series, we are pleased to welcome Emma Jane Hogbin. Emma Jane was a very early user of Drupal and has written or contributed to documentation on Drupal.org and in her multiple books on Drupal and related subjects. Tag1's Managing Director Michael Meyers hosts Emma Jane in this chat about her history with Drupal, and why it’s community, not code.

In the second installment in our three-part series on Laravel, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Senior Software Engineer Laslo Horvath about the challenges and pitfalls of systems - whether they’re decoupled or monolithic. Learn more about the factors of each, and if you really need to go one way or the other - or if a hybrid approach is the better way to move forward.

In the first part of this three-part series, Senior Software Engineer Laslo Horvath joins Managing Director Michael Meyers for an overview of Laravel. Laravel is a PHP framework designed to meet the needs of new web developers with monolithic applications, to experienced developers who may need a fully or progressively decoupled website to meet all of their clients’ needs. 

They also discuss some of the similarities and differences between Laravel and Symfony (the framework Drupal is built on), the community around Laravel, and how their ecosystem works. 

In this second part of our series on automating infrastructure, Managing Director Michael Meyers is joined by CIO Jeff Sheltren and Senior Infrastructure Engineer Travis Whitehead. They discuss how Tag1 is using these tools to create and deploy entire websites, ready for use, in just a few minutes.

From a standardized distribution, to Docker, to Pulumi, and finally to deployment, you’ll hear about the ins and outs of the workflows Tag1 is creating to be faster and more successful. 

Making these websites turnkey can reduce the amount of time your IT or devops teams need to spend standing up resources. It can also significantly reduce development costs when you have a deployable website instance that can be used to fulfill the needs of several organizations in your company.

In this first part a two-part series, Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with CIO Jeff Sheltren, and Senior Infrastructure Engineer Travis Whitehead about the challenges large enterprises face, and the software-based solutions Tag1 is using to help our customers be more successful with standardized website deployments.

In this second part of our two part talk, dive into the technical details of end to end encryption and how Yjs incorporates it in Serenity Notes. Tag1 Managing Director Michael  Meyers and VP of Software Development Fabian Franz are joined by Yjs creator Kevin Jahns, and Nik Graf, a technology consultant and creator of Serenity Notes in this Tag1 Team Talk.

As part of our series of talks with Open Source Leaders, Tag1 Consulting’s Managing Director Michael Meyers, VP of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, and Yjs founder Kevin Jahns talk with Drupal's founder, Dries Buytaert about open source projects and communities. This talk focuses on open source project sustainability and funding.

Dries talks about some of the key points that made Drupal successful, and how the project and the Drupal Association have changed and pivoted based on challenges like the coronavirus pandemic. Dries also gives some pointers on how he started to sell his project to others, and how that started to change his role in the project over time, from the primary developer to a project head focused on visibility.

A critical part of data security is encryption. It protects everything from our personal information, helping prevent identity theft, financial information like your bank account and credit card from being accessed, to company secrets. According to a 2019 CNBC article, cyberattacks cost businesses an average of $200,000, with 43% of attacks being aimed at small businesses. 

What can your business do to help ensure your data is protected, while still enabling collaboration? Take a deep dive into understanding end-to-end encryption, and how emerging technologies like Yjs can be incorporated to meet your needs. Tag1 Managing Director Michael  Meyers and VP of Software Development Fabian Franz are joined by Yjs creator Kevin Jahns, and Nik Graf, a technology consultant and creator of Serenity Notes in this Tag1 Team Talk.

While Drupal is an open source project, based in code, many of the things that have made it the CMS that powers 1 out of every 30 websites are not the code - they’re also the marketing that convinces new users to try Drupal, and the people who make up the community and own necessary portions of the project. 

As part of our series of talks with Open Source Leaders, Tag1 Consulting’s Managing Director Michael Meyers, VP of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, and Yjs founder Kevin Jahns talk with Dries about the origins of Drupal, and how it grew as a project and a community. We’ll also tie back to our Tag1 looks back on 20 years of Drupal experiences 20 years of Drupal series to talk about how community members can be critical to the growth and adoption of an open source project. 

From the early days of Drupal's remarkably prescient web services, to the adoption of the JSON:API specification in Drupal core, to the ongoing innovation surrounding GraphQL in Drupal and the Decoupled Menu Initiative, how far have we come? How has decoupled Drupal evolved over the years, what makes it such a compelling architectural paradigm in light of the emerging distributed CMS trend, and why is it still in vogue?

In part 2 of our series on decoupled Drupal, Preston So, the author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice (2018), co-originator of the term progressive decoupling, and Tag1 Consulting's Editor in Chief and Michael Meyers, Managing Director at Tag1, in this discussion of decoupled Drupal’s history and future, and the hows and whys of using decoupled Drupal.

Accessibility is a key factor for SML, from mobile support to responsive theming, to better usability for everyone. Other improvements like better curation and search capabilities aim to improve the user experience for everyone - from website administrators to teachers looking for lessons, to homeschooling families.

Join Tag1 COO Peta Hoyes, and Managing Director Michael Meyers as they talk with Kelly about the success of the updated Share My Lesson, and where the website is going next.

Learn from Preston So, the author of the bible on #HeadlessDrupal, co-originator of the term progressive decoupling, and Tag1 Consulting's Editor in Chief in this wide-ranging conversation with Michael Meyers about the past, present, and future of decoupled architectures and decoupled Drupal's role in shaping the paradigm.

Share My Lesson provides free resources for teachers, parents, and other educators. The American Federation of Teachers created Share My Lesson to help educators address their needs, and share lessons with colleagues. In this part of our Tag1 Team Talks series with Kelly Booz, Director of Share My Lesson and e-learning at AFT, Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers and COO Peta Hoyes talk with Kelly about the growth of the Share My Lesson website. 

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Narayan about how he got started, some of the work that goes into maintaining Drupal’s websites and repositories, and the things he’s learned over the years.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, ProseMirror, CodeMirror and Acorn project founder Marijn Haverbeke joins Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers, Vice President of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, and Yjs creator Kevin Jahns to talk about how Marijn funds his projects and the expectations that can come with that funding. 

Share My Lesson is the AFT’s website for sharing lessons, lesson plans, and other resources for educators of all types. These free resources provide a platform for teachers, homeschoolers, or anyone working with children as an educator. From preschool to adult education, Share My Lesson provides a place for people to find and share educational materials.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers is joined by Kelly Booz, the director of Share My Lesson and eLearning at the American Federation of Teachers. In part one of our series on Share My Lesson, learn about what Share My Lesson is, what it does, and how it has successfully grown without becoming a victim of its own success. 

In this edition of our Drupal anniversary series, Managing Director Michael Meyers hosts Senior Infrastructure Engineer Greg Lund-Chaix to talk about some of the ways contributions happen without writing code, and to remember some of Drupal’s earliest time at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers caught up with Fabian to talk about Fabian’s time in the community, what he’s most passionate about and proud of, and how he got to where he is today, as we celebrate 20 years of Drupal.

Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers, Vice President of Software Development Fabian Franz, and Yjs creator Kevin Jahns talk with Marijn Haverbeke, founder of the CodeMirror, ProseMirror and Acorn projects to talk about how those projects got started and how they’re being developed today. They’ll also talk about how being early into a space, and how becoming a name you can trust helps further later projects.

Catch has nearly 8500 commits in his 15 years working with Drupal. He’s worked on a wide variety of modules, as well as holding the dual positions of Drupal core release manager and the  Framework manager. His focus on performance and scalability has helped build Drupal into what it is today.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Plach about his years in the community, what he’s done in that time, and some of his favorite things. Francesco, a native Italian, has been a major contributor to his area of focus: multilingual translations.

In this edition of our Tag1 Team Talks, Moshe takes time out of his schedule to talk with Michael Meyers, Managing Director of Tag1 to talk about the ups and downs and all of their experiences over the past 19 years and 10 months - just a couple of months short of the actual beginning of the Drupal project’s release to the world.

As the creator of the taxonomy, forum, and image modules, Marco contributed some of the most widely used features in Drupal. Marco’s contributions have shaped a significant portion of what and where the Drupal project is today.

In this installment of our 20 years of Drupal series, Tag1 Principal Technical Writer Lynette Miles gives Michael the opportunity to talk about his experiences from the early days of Drupal, and today.

Doug is the creator of the Coder module. He has been a Drupal.org member for over 16 years and has contributed to dozens of modules as well as maintaining the modules he has created for the community. 

To kick off our ongoing series of Team Talks covering 20 years of Drupal, Jeremy joins Managing Director Michael Meyers for a short discussion about those years, what’s changed, and what it’s been like as a business owner and a developer in the open-source community.

In this talk, Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers sits down with Senior Back End Engineer and Migration Lead Lucas Hedding to discuss the progress of the Auto Update system intended for Drupal Core, how it’s different from the Auto Updater module, how it should help you keep your websites up to date more easily, and the variety of projects who are working together on creating this as an extensible system. 

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Michael Meyers  (Managing Director of Tag1 Consulting) talks with 

Lucas Hedding (migrate, auto update, new module reviews/mentorship of new contributors), Janez Urevc (media initiative owner, MongoDB), and Doug Green (Senior architect and technical lead at Tag1) about why individuals should contribute to open source projects, and why companies should encourage their teams and clients to give back as well. 

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Michael Meyers (Managing Director of Tag1 Consulting) talks with 

Lucas Hedding (migrate, auto-update, new module reviews/mentorship of new contributors), Janez Urevc (media initiative owner, MongoDB), and Doug Green (Senior architect and technical lead at Tag1) to talk about what they’ve learned in their years working in open source, the mistakes they’ve made and the challenges they have faced.

In the final session of this special three-part series of @Tag1 Consulting's Tag1 Team Talks, join @Jeremy Andrews (Founder and CEO at Tag1), @Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1), and your host @Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1) for an episode full of information about what you can expect from the Drupal 8 End of Life

In a special three-part series, join Jeremy Andrews (Founder and CEO, Tag1 Consulting), Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1 Consulting), and your Tag1 Team Talks host Preston So (Editor in Chief, Tag1 Consulting) for a wide-ranging conversation about extended support in Drupal, what Drupal 7 site owners need to know today about extended support, and how Tag1 Quo is the optimal solution among D7ES vendors for your mission-critical Drupal 7 implementations. When it comes to Drupal 7 past end-of-life, Tag1 has your back.

In this very special two-part series, join Angie Byron (Senior Director, Product and Community Development at Acquia), Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1 Consulting), and your Core Confidential host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 Consulting), for a fireside chat with the one and only Angie Byron. We dove into some of the amazing (and not so amazing) things Angie has seen over the course of her fifteen years deeply involved in Drupal core development as well as what people need to know about Drupal core today and in the near future.

Drupal 7 was supposed to go end-of-life in June of this year, when Drupal 9 was released, but owing to the coronavirus pandemic, Drupal maintainers have extended the Drupal 7 end-of-life to November 2021 due to the significant proportion of Drupal site owners who are still on that version. Tag1 Quo, Tag1's extended support service for Drupal, offers you peace of mind when it comes to receiving all of the important security updates that Drupal 7 Extended Support (D7ES) vendors maintain. But Tag1 Quo goes well beyond the minimum requirements of the D7ES program, because we cover all of your contributed modules and notify you right away of security patches that need your attention.

In a special three-part series, join Jeremy Andrews (Founder and CEO, Tag1 Consulting), Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1 Consulting), and your Tag1 Team Talks host Preston So (Editor in Chief, Tag1 Consulting) for a wide-ranging conversation about extended support in Drupal, what Drupal 7 site owners need to know today about extended support, and how Tag1 Quo is the optimal solution among D7ES vendors for your mission-critical Drupal 7 implementations. When it comes to Drupal 7 past end-of-life, Tag1 has your back.

Drupal is notorious for its "everyone has a voice" approach to open-source development, but it isn't easy to reach consensus across thousands of people with different backgrounds and opinions. In addition, Drupal has witnessed countless paradigm shifts in its lengthy history, both in the surrounding world of web development and in its internal workings. As Drupal has grown to power over two percent of the websites on the entire internet, many new workflows and governance structures have had to be put in place to guarantee the continued longevity of the Drupal community. In addition, with end-of-life quickly approaching for Drupal 7, contributors now have to juggle a widening range of versions.

In this very special two-part series, join Angie Byron (Senior Director, Product and Community Development at Acquia), Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1 Consulting), and your Core Confidential host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 Consulting), for a fireside chat with the one and only Angie Byron. We dove into some of the amazing (and not so amazing) things Angie has seen over the course of her fifteen years deeply involved in Drupal core development as well as what people need to know about Drupal core today and in the near future.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, Michael Meyers (Managing Editor at Tag1) and Lynette Miles (Principal Technical Writer at Tag1) talk about integrating Vale into your workflow on the command line, or as part of an IDE, show a few tests, and demonstrate how quickly you can make changes to your tests, enabling your writers and your developers to work from the same expectations. 

One well-known type of tool in the software world, but less so in the writing world is the linter. Software developers often consider their linters to be invaluable in catching or preventing errors, as well as enforcing defined stylistic guidelines before errors get out in front of the world.

Documentation is a critical part of any customer-facing product or service. Without it, your customers need hand holding, your support staff struggles to help your users, and your company spends money on unhappy customers instead of creating new products. 

One of the biggest challenges is creating quality documentation. Treating your documentation as part of your product leads the entire production team towards thinking of users first. Treating your documentation as part of your code lowers the barriers for your development teams to contribute.

In this talk, Michael Meyers (Managing Editor at Tag1) and Lynette Miles (Principal Technical Writer at Tag1) dig into what it means to treat your docs like code, and how it can help your teams’ workflows. We’ll also talk about linting - and why it can matter just as much for your writers as it does for your developers, and how a docs-as-code methodology can speed up contributions from everyone working on a product. 

We'll dive into the most important considerations when resourcing and conducting discovery for a new build, Janie's CARE philosophy for high-functioning remote teams, and best practices, convenient tools, and lessons learned over many years when it comes to elite software projects.

In a special miniseries in four parts, Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1 Consulting) and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief, Tag1 Consulting) had an opportunity to join Janie for an exciting four episodes about the human side of managing projects in agile software. We'll dive into the most important considerations when resourcing and conducting discovery for a new build, Janie's CARE philosophy for high-functioning remote teams, and best practices, convenient tools, and lessons learned over many years when it comes to elite software projects.

Among other things, the ongoing pandemic has ripped open the former fabric of our work lives, decentralizing and distributing our collaboration in newfound ways. Project management for agile software development teams is a mission that serves the dual purpose of efficiently producing good software and empowering the humans behind any product. As Project Manager and Scrum Master at Tag1 Consulting, and with over a decade of software development and program and project management experience, Janie Ledet lent the Tag1 Team Talks show her subject matter expertise to share some of the human elements of great, successful projects.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to render most workforces remote for the foreseeable future, crafting inclusive, high-functioning distributed teams isn't an easy matter. At Tag1, we've worked as a remote-first team since the beginning, thanks to deft project management like Janie's. These days more than ever, it's essential to have an experienced project manager on challenging projects, to manage remote teams with deep care, and to leverage best-of-class tools and best practices to shepherd the work of an agile development team.

In a special miniseries in four parts, Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1 Consulting) and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief, Tag1 Consulting) had an opportunity to join Janie for an exciting four episodes about the human side of managing projects in agile software. We'll dive into the most important considerations when resourcing and conducting discovery for a new build, Janie's CARE philosophy for high-functioning remote teams, and best practices, convenient tools, and lessons learned over many years when it comes to elite software projects.

Among other things, the ongoing pandemic has ripped open the former fabric of our work lives, decentralizing and distributing our collaboration in newfound ways. Project management for agile software development teams is a mission that serves the dual purpose of efficiently producing good software and empowering the humans behind any product. As Project Manager and Scrum Master at Tag1 Consulting, and with over a decade of software development and program and project management experience, Janie Ledet lent the Tag1 Team Talks show her subject matter expertise to share some of the human elements of great, successful projects.

In a special miniseries in four parts, Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1 Consulting) and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief, Tag1 Consulting) had an opportunity to join Janie for an exciting four episodes about the human side of managing projects in agile software. We'll dive into the most important considerations when resourcing and conducting discovery for a new build, Janie's CARE philosophy for high-functioning remote teams, and best practices, convenient tools, and lessons learned over many years when it comes to elite software projects.

Soon, for the first time, Drupal contributors will be able to create merge requests and issue forks that make reviewing, suggesting changes to, and testing code much easier across the board. All activity will be reported back to the issue on Drupal.org, but contributors will be able to provide direct code comments and code review on the merge request as well. With Drupal.org's massive store of metadata, landing on the optimal solution required significant discovery and evaluation of how Drupal contribution would change in light of the move to GitLab. And with an initial beta launched just before DrupalCon Global this year, there are already more than a hundred projects in the Drupal ecosystem participating in the program.

In another special edition of our Tag1 Team Talks series, learn about what features will be part of Drupal.org's support for merge requests and issue forks, what the future of DrupalCI looks like in light of modern approaches to automated testing, and how you can not only take advantage of the ongoing beta but also how you can get involved as a contributor to one of the most important initiatives in Drupal's history. Join Tim Lehnen (Chief Technology Officer, Drupal Association), Neil Drumm (Senior Technologist, Drupal Association), Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1 Consulting), and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief, Tag1 Consulting) for a fireside chat about the future of contribution and collaboration on Drupal.org.

A critical component of improving the experience for all users is accessibility. In this episode of Tag1TeamTalks, Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1) talks with Kat Shaw (Senior Front-end Developer, Lullabot), a CPACC-certified accessibility expert working on both initiatives.

Join us for a tour and overview of both themes, get unique insight into the development process and inner workings of strategic initiatives, learn about the accessibility improvements, and find out how all these benefit you and your Drupal sites (hint: your sites become a lot more accessible, for free, with little effort on your part).

Both initiatives carry over from D8 and have been under development for some time. In Drupal 9.0, Claro, the new admin theme, is available in beta as an optional theme you can enable today. It is slated to become the default admin theme in the upcoming D9.1 release. You can also try the new front-end theme, Olivero, hands-on, by downloading and installing it from Drupal.org. It will likely be part of Core in the upcoming D9.1 release as an optional theme that you can enable, and will hopefully be the default theme in Drupal 9.2.

In recent years, the explosion of software consultancies and professional services has led some to argue that software implementation has become a "commodity business." This is couched in the mistaken belief that any engineer, if afforded the right tools, can rapidly assemble pre-existing components to manifest solutions quickly with minimal investment. However, such a notion of assemblage doesn't avoid the Frankenstein effect, in which organizations seldom have a single monolithic tool that can be leveraged horizontally. Instead, software architecture is not just about putting the pieces together; it is about understanding the optimal conjunct that those components make up.

Digging into some of the secrets we've learned at Tag1 as a business, join our latest episode of Tag1 Team Talks, with Peta Hoyes (Chief Operating Officer, Partner at Tag1), Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1), and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice). We'll dive into how grappling with the right questions can help alleviate some of the damage that the misconception of less expensive resources leading to a better outcome has wrought not only among our clients but also among software consultancies writ large.

The solution is a combination of Web Components support within Drupal and intelligent handling of immutable state in data that allows for Drupal to become a more JavaScript-like rendering layer. Rather than working with endless render trees and an antiquated Ajax framework, and instead of reinventing Drupal's front-end wheel from scratch, Fabian recommends adopting the best of both worlds by incorporating key aspects of Web Components, the Shadow DOM, and particularly syntactic sugar for declarative components that competes readily not only with wildly popular JavaScript technologies like React and Vue but also matches up to the emerging approaches seen in ecosystems like Laravel.

In this Tag1 Team Talks episode, join Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1), Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1), and your host and moderator Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1; Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle; and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for a wide-ranging technical discussion about how to enable declarative components everywhere for Drupal's front end out of the box. If you were interested in Fabian's "Components Everywhere" talk at DrupalCon Amsterdam last year, this is a Tag1 Team Talks episode you won't want to miss!

But that's not all. Drupal 9's release also means long-awaited upgrades to Drupal.org as well as some of the most essential infrastructure and services that underpin Drupal.org and its associated properties, like localize.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, and api.drupal.org. Releases in Drupal have also garnered greater scrutiny from nefarious actors who target launch dates to seek security vulnerabilities. The Drupal Association works tirelessly to buttress all of these initiatives and responsibilities, with the support of Tag1 and other organizations.

In this Tag1 Team Talks episode, part of a special series with the engineering team at the Drupal Association, we speak discuss Drupal 9 and what it portends for Drupal's future with Tim Lehnen (Chief Technology Officer, Drupal Association), Neil Drumm (Senior Technologist, Drupal Association), Narayan Newton (Chief Technology Officer, Tag1 Consulting), Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1 Consulting), and Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 Consulting and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice). We dove into some of the nitty-gritty and day-in-the-life of Drupal core committers and how Drupal is taking a uniquely new approach to tackle technical debt.

DrupalSpoons, created by Moshe Weitzman and recently released, is a special configuration of groups and projects in GitLab that provides a bevy of useful features and tools for Drupal contributors who are maintaining Drupal projects. A play on the word "fork," which refers to a separately maintained clone of a codebase that still retains a link to the prior repository, DrupalSpoons offers support for GitLab issues, merge requests (GitLab's analogue for GitHub's pull requests), and continuous integration on contributed Drupal projects in the ecosystem. It leverages zero custom code, apart from the issue migration process to aid DrupalSpoons newcomers, and outlines potential trajectories for Drupal contribution in the long term as well.

In this exciting episode of Tag1 Team Talks, Moshe Weitzman (Subject Matter Expert, Senior Architect, and Project Lead at Tag1) hopped on with Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1) and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for a deep dive into what makes DrupalSpoons so compelling for Drupal contributors and the origin story that inspired Moshe to build it. Join us to learn how you can replace your existing Drupal contribution workflows with DrupalSpoons to get the most out of Drupal's recent migration to GitLab and the most modern capabilities in Drupal code management today.

Goose is a powerful new open-source load testing tool written in Rust by the Tag1 team. Inspired by Locust, it offers many of the same advantages but makes far more efficient use of the underlying hardware. On a single core, the current version of Goose is at least eleven times faster than Locust, and this high level of scalability increases as you introduce additional cores. And fortunately for open-source contributors, Goose is entirely free and open-source, with the roadmap and vision to become a formidable player among load testing tools.

In this episode of Tag1 Team Talks, Jeremy Andrews (Founding Partner at Tag1) and Fabian Franz (VP Software Engineering at Tag1) joined Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1) and your host and moderator Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for a high- and low-level examination of what makes Goose great for even the most finicky load testing scenarios. Learn how you can substitute Goose for Locust and access all of the benefits of the Rust programming language alongside unique features that make Goose a compelling option for anyone concerned about performance and scalability.

Drupal 9 is a massive step for innovation in the Drupal community, thanks to the careful thought that went into how Drupal can continue to stay ahead of the curve. During the Drupal 9 development cycle, which was largely about deprecating and removing old code, the Drupal core committers laid the groundwork for the future and facilitated a more pleasant upgrade experience from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 that should smooth over many of the hindrances that characterized the transition from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. And there's already exciting new plans ahead for Drupal 9, with coming releases consisting of even more refactoring and deprecations. With Drupal 9.1 in December, the focus will shift to new features and improvements, including user experience, accessibility, performance, security, privacy, and integrations.

In the second episode of our new monthly show Core Confidential, Fabian Franz (VP Software Engineering at Tag1) sat down with Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1) and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for a quick but comprehensive survey of how Drupal 9 will change Drupal for the better. Beyond discussing the technical improvements and ecosystem advancements, this Core Confidential episode also dives into the anxieties, challenges, and concerns that core committers have about Drupal 9 moving forward.

Already leveraged by mission-critical applications at organizations as diverse as Sotheby's, McKinsey, and the Coda blockchain, ReasonML is an optimal choice for developers who need typed data integrity at every point in the application and a more failsafe approach to React. Today, ReasonML developers are using the technology to alleviate the pain of a hard-to-refactor React codebase, overly lengthy ES6 and TypeScript compilation times, and the "overpowered" nature of TypeScript as a source of choice paralysis and code complexity.

In this episode of Tag1 Team Talks, Patrick Stapfer (Lead React Developer at Tag1 and Member of the Reason Association) sits down with Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1) and your host and moderator Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle) for a deep dive into ReasonML, its features when it comes to syntax and developer experience, real-world applications that are ideal for ReasonML, and last but not least, the rapidly growing community and ecosystem surrounding ReasonML in the form of the Reason Association and ReasonConf. Learn about how ReasonML can help you build resilient web applications with a high threshold for stability on the latest Tag1 Team Talks episode.

The impending release of Drupal 9 has many developers scrambling to prepare their Drupal implementations and many module maintainers working hard to ensure their contributed plugins are Drupal 9-ready. Thanks to Gábor Hojtsy's offer of #DrupalCares contributions in return for Drupal 9-ready modules, there has been a dizzying acceleration in the growth of modules available as soon as Drupal 9 lands. In addition, the new Rector module allows for Drupal contributors to have access to a low-level assessment of what needs to change in their code to be fully equipped for the Drupal 9 launch.

In this inaugural episode of Core Confidential, the insider guide to Drupal core development and Tag1's new series, we dive into the day-to-day life of a core committer and what you need to know about Drupal 9 readiness with the help of Fabian Franz (VP of Software Engineering at Tag1), Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1), and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice). Learn more about how Drupal's core team continues to support the Drupal project as it gets ready for the latest and greatest in Drupal 9, due to be released this summer for eager CMS practitioners worldwide. 

In recent years, the Drupal Association has launched several features that reinvent the way developers interact with Drupal as a software system, including DrupalCI (Drupal's test infrastructure), Composer Façade (in order to support Drupal's adoption of Composer), and Drupal's ongoing migration to GitLab for enhanced source control. For many years, Tag1 Consulting has supported and contributed to the Drupal Association not only as a key partner in visible initiatives but also in the lesser-known aspects of the Drupal Association's work that keep Drupal.org and the ecosystem running. Though we've long provided 80 free hours of work a month to the Drupal Association, we're proud to announce we are expanding this commitment by 50% to 120 pro-bono hours per month (75% of an FTE). In addition we have also made a donation toward #DrupalCares' $100,000 goal.

In this special edition of the Tag1 Team Talks show, we introduce a miniseries with the engineering team at the Drupal Association, including Tim Lehnen (Chief Technology Officer, Drupal Association) and Narayan Newton (Chief Technology Officer, Tag1), along with Michael Meyers (Managing Editor, Tag1) and Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle). In this first installment, we dive into some of the mission-critical work the Drupal Association performs for the Drupal community with the support of Tag1 and other organizations and how they represent the lifeblood of the Drupal project as well as its continued longevity.

Based in Vienna, Laslo Horváth (Senior Laravel Developer at Tag1) did just that - he designed and implemented, in only several dozen lines of code, an offline e-learning application that helps his young children practice their writing and speaking in German and English, all through speech-to-text transcription features available out of the box in HTML5. Even better, because the application has no infrastructure, he can share it with other parents in the same situation. As a result, Laslo’s kids are more engaged and he gets some much needed peace of mind, as well as time to get some work done! 

In this special episode of Tag1 Team Talks, Laslo joins Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1) and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle) for a pandemic edition that delves into how you can enable e-learning for your own family with APIs available in your browser out of the box. In the process, we explore some of the implications for HTML5's SpeechRecognition API and voice-driven applications. If you're at your wit's end with your own homeschooling needs, Laslo's solution may be right for you.

Moreover, Laravel is an excellent tool for architecting custom applications with complex logic, all without any complexity offloaded onto the developer experience. Thanks to the Laravel ecosystem, you can have a working PHP application with APIs and a functional single-page JavaScript application in Vue.js with minimal overhead. Instead of having to define low-level properties like in Symfony or deal with too many premade assumptions like in Drupal or WordPress, you can focus on user workflows in Laravel and benefit from a more reasonable learning curve as well.

In this Tag1 Team Talks episode, László Horváth (Senior Laravel Developer at Tag1) joins guests Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1), Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1), and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle) for a deep dive into why Laravel should be your choice when building a mission-critical PHP architecture that encompasses a decoupled front end in JavaScript and multi-level access control and permissioning.

Yjs is both network-agnostic and editor-agnostic, which means it can integrate with a variety of editors like ProseMirror, CodeMirror, Quill, and others. This represents substantial flexibility when it comes to the goals of WordPress to support collaborative editing and the potential for other CMSs like Drupal to begin exploring the prospect of shared editing out of the box. Though challenges remain to enable truly bonafide shared editing off the shelf in WordPress and Drupal installations, Gutenberg is brimming with possibility as the collaboration with Tag1 continues to bear significant fruit.

In this Tag1 Team Talks episode that undertakes a technical deep dive into how the WordPress community and Tag1 enabled collaborative editing in the Gutenberg editor, join Kevin Jahns (creator of Yjs and Real-Time Collaboration Systems Lead at Tag1), Michael Meyers (Managing Editor at Tag1), and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for an exploration of how CMSs around the landscape can learn from Gutenberg's work to empower editors to collaborate in real-time in one of the most exciting new editorial experiences in the CMS world.

Claro demonstrates several ideas that not only illustrate the successes of open-source innovation but also the limitations of overly ambitious ideas. By descoping some of the more unrealistic proposals early on and narrowing the focus of the Claro initiative on incremental improvements and facilitating the work of later initiatives, Claro is an exemplar of sustainable open-source development.

In this closer look at how Claro was made possible and what its future holds for Drupal administration, join Cristina Chumillas (Claro maintainer and Front-End Developer at Lullabot), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1), Michael Meyers (Managing Editor at Tag1), and Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for a Tag1 Team Talks episode about the newest addition to Drupal's fast-evolving front end.

Yjs, an open-source framework for real-time collaboration, integrates gracefully with IndexedDB, the local offline-first database available in browsers, to help developers easily implement offline shared editing for their organization's needs. Paired in turn with other technologies like WebRTC, a peer-to-peer communication protocol, and Yjs connectors, a graceful architecture is possible that not only enables offline shared editing for a variety of use cases beyond textual content but also makes the developer experience as straightforward as possible.

In this technical and topical deep dive into how Yjs and IndexedDB make offline shared editing possible, join Kevin Jahns (creator of Yjs and Real-Time Collaboration Systems Lead at Tag1), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1), Michael Meyers (Managing Editor at Tag1), and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for a Tag1 Team Talks episode you don't want to miss about how to enable offline shared editing for web applications and even CMSs like Drupal.

Thanks to WebRTC and Yjs, anyone can build collaborative editing into their web application, and this includes more than just text — Yjs enables collaborative drawing, drafting, and other innovative use cases. The advantage of such a peer-to-peer model (in lieu of a client–server model) in the CMS world is that collaborative editing can be added to any editorial interface without significant overhead or a central server handling conflict resolution. By integrating with y-webrtc, the Yjs connector for WebRTC, CMS communities can easily implement collaborative editing and make it natively available to all users, whether on shared hosting or in the enterprise. The future of Drupal, WordPress, and other CMSs is collaborative, and, together, WebRTC and Yjs enable collaborative editing out of the box.

In this deep dive into how Yjs enables peer-to-peer collaboration, join Kevin Jahns (Real-Time Collaboration Systems Lead at Tag1 and creator of Yjs), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1), Michael Meyers (Managing Editor at Tag1), and Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for a closer look at how you too can build peer-to-peer collaboration into your decentralized application.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, join the creator and maintainer of Drush Moshe Weitzman (Senior Technical Architect at Tag1), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1), Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1) for a journey through Drush’s history and promising future. We take a deep look at what made Drush what it is today, the most compelling features in Drush 10, and how a hypothetical Drush in core could look.

In this Tag1 Team Talk, we continue our deep dive into Yjs with the founder and project lead of this collaborative editing framework to learn more about how it enables not only collaborative text editing but also collaborative drawing, collaborative 3D modeling, and other compelling use cases. In particular, we focus on the three core features that make up any great collaborative editing application: awareness, offline editing, and versioning with change histories. 

Join Kevin Jahns (Real-Time Collaboration Systems Lead at Tag1 Consulting and Founder and Project Lead of Yjs), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1 Consulting), Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1 Consulting), and moderator Preston So (Contributing Editor at Tag1 Consulting and Principal Product Manager at Gatsby) for the second part of our deep dive series on Yjs directly from its creator (and excited learners).

Join moderator Preston So (Contributing Editor, Tag1 Consulting) and guests Kevin Jahns (Real Time Collaboration Systems Lead, Tag1; Creator of Yjs), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead, Tag1), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1) for an insider’s perspective on the past, present, and future of Yjs.

Join moderator Preston So (Contributing Editor, Tag1 Consulting) and guests Lucas Hedding (Senior Architect and Data and Application Migration Expert, Tag1), Tim Lehnen (CTO, Drupal Association), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead, Tag1), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1) for a deep dive into the nuts and bolts of Drupal's groundbreaking automatic updates feature, directly from the module maintainer, and the strategic initiative sponsors including the Drupal Association, MTech, Tag1, and the European Commission.

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Further reading

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Automatic Update - Module

https://www.drupal.org/project/automa...

Automatic Updates - D7 and D8 Documentation Pages

https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/update/...

https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/update/...

Automatic Updates - Issue Queue

https://drupal.org/project/issues/aut...

To provide your feedback on this first generation of the Automatic Updates module, create an issue in the Automatic Updates issue queue

Automatic updates are coming to Drupal at the end of October! Long one of the most commonly requested features in the Drupal community, Drupal 7 and D8 will soon have an automatic updater that will allow Drupal installations to stay up-to-date more easily. How does Drupal's new auto updater work, and what do you need to know about it? In this Tag1 Team Talk, we dive into not only Drupal's new automatic updates feature itself but also its architecture, components, and roadmap, as well as why it's such an important part of Drupal's Core Strategic Initiatives.

Join moderator Preston So (Contributing Editor, Tag1 Consulting) and guests Lucas Hedding (Senior Architect and Data and Application Migration Expert, Tag1), Tim Lehnen (CTO, Drupal Association), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead, Tag1), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1) for a deep dive into the nuts and bolts of Drupal's groundbreaking automatic updates feature, directly from the module maintainer, and the strategic initiative sponsors including the Drupal Association, MTech, Tag1, and the European Commission.

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Further reading

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Automatic Update - Module

https://www.drupal.org/project/automa...

Automatic Updates - D7 and D8 Documentation Pages

https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/update/...

https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/update/...

Automatic Updates - Issue Queue

https://drupal.org/project/issues/aut...

To provide your feedback on this first generation of the Automatic Updates module, create an issue in the Automatic Updates issue queue

de996893-8de8-4422-b00e-d491c406f991Tue, 05 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -050059:44falsefull1331Automatic updates are coming to Drupal at the end of October! Long one of the most commonly requested features in the Drupal community, Drupal 7 and D8 will soon have an automatic updater that will allow Drupal installations to stay up-to-date more easily. How does Drupal's new auto updater work, and what do you need to know about it? In this Tag1 Team Talk, we dive into not only Drupal's new automatic updates feature itself but also its architecture, components, and roadmap, as well as why it's such an important part of Drupal's Core Strategic Initiatives. Join moderator Preston So (Contributing Editor, Tag1 Consulting) and guests Lucas Hedding (Senior Architect and Data and Application Migration Expert, Tag1), Tim Lehnen (CTO, Drupal Association), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead, Tag1), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1) for a deep dive into the nuts and bolts of Drupal's groundbreaking automatic updates feature, directly from the module maintainer, and the strategic initiative sponsors including the Drupal Association, MTech, Tag1, and the European Commission.A Deep Dive Into Rich Text Editors - TagTeamTalk #002Rich text editors are an integral part of content creation and content management workflows, but they can often present challenges for developers when it comes to robustness, extensibility, flexibility, and accessibility. What are some of the considerations you should keep in mind when evaluating rich text editors, especially for mission-critical systems like the application Tag1 is building for a top Fortune 50 company?

In this Tag1 Team Talk, we explore the new generation of rich text editors, which are based on a well defined data-structure rather than HTML, but still can export to Markdown or HTML. This allows us to tackle new requirements organizations have, including video embedding, cross-device support, and keyboard-navigable editors. After diving into some of the open-source solutions available in the market, such as Draft.js, CKEditor 5, Quill, Slate, and TapTap, join moderator Preston So (Contributing Editor) and guests Nik Graf (Senior Software Engineer), Kevin Jahns (Real-time Collaboration Systems Lead, Yjs creator), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director) for an in-depth conversation about why ProseMirror is the best tool for our client’s project requirements.

Be sure to check out our related #TagTeamTalk, A Deep Dive Into Real Time Collaborative Editing solutions (e.g., Yjs, Collab, CKSource, etc.): https://youtu.be/qCBr3CxGo30

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ProseMirror Editor

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https://prosemirror.net/

CZI ProseMirror: https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/czi...

Prosemirror Tables Demo: Rich text editors are an integral part of content creation and content management workflows, but they can often present challenges for developers when it comes to robustness, extensibility, flexibility, and accessibility. What are some of the considerations you should keep in mind when evaluating rich text editors, especially for mission-critical systems like the application Tag1 is building for a top Fortune 50 company?

In this Tag1 Team Talk, we explore the new generation of rich text editors, which are based on a well defined data-structure rather than HTML, but still can export to Markdown or HTML. This allows us to tackle new requirements organizations have, including video embedding, cross-device support, and keyboard-navigable editors. After diving into some of the open-source solutions available in the market, such as Draft.js, CKEditor 5, Quill, Slate, and TapTap, join moderator Preston So (Contributing Editor) and guests Nik Graf (Senior Software Engineer), Kevin Jahns (Real-time Collaboration Systems Lead, Yjs creator), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director) for an in-depth conversation about why ProseMirror is the best tool for our client’s project requirements.

Be sure to check out our related #TagTeamTalk, A Deep Dive Into Real Time Collaborative Editing solutions (e.g., Yjs, Collab, CKSource, etc.): https://youtu.be/qCBr3CxGo30

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Further reading

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ProseMirror Editor

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https://prosemirror.net/

CZI ProseMirror: https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/czi...

Prosemirror Tables Demo: ccf516f8-cbcf-4c0e-80dc-66a100c4f7fcThu, 17 Oct 2019 09:00:00 -050057:02falsefull1221In this Tag1 Team Talk, we explore the new generation of rich text editors, which are based on a well-defined data-structure rather than HTML, but still can export to Markdown or HTML. This allows us to tackle new requirements organizations have, including video embedding, cross-device support, and keyboard-navigable editors. After diving into some of the open-source solutions available in the market, such as Draft.js, CKEditor 5, Quill, Slate, and TapTap, join moderator Preston So (Contributing Editor) and guests Nik Graf (Senior Software Engineer), Kevin Jahns (Real-time Collaboration Systems Lead, Yjs creator), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director) for an in-depth conversation about why ProseMirror is the best tool for our client’s project requirements.A Deep Dive Into Real Time Collaborative Editing Solutions -TagTeamTalk #001What is real-time collaborative editing, and what are some of the most compelling technologies available in the space? In the inaugural TAG Team Talk, hosted by Preston So (Contributing Editor, Tag1 Consulting), we conduct a wide-ranging discussion about both the business prerogatives and technical ins-and-outs of real-time collaborative editing and its landscape today, with our guests Kevin Jahns (creator of Yjs and collaborative editing expert at Tag1 Consulting), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead, Tag1 Consulting), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1 Consulting). In this talk, we explore collaborative editing, diving into how it works and some of the challenges borne by shared editing. Through the lens of Yjs, a real-time collaboration framework that supports not just text but also collaborating on drawings and 3-D models, we take a look at Operational Transformation (OT) and how implementing Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) drives decentralized server approaches in collaborative editing and supports more robust distributed applications with true real-time support.

Yjs: https://github.com/yjs/yjs

ProseMirror: https://prosemirror.net

Great Overview of CRDT

https://conclave-team.github.io/conclave-site/#conflict-free-replicated-data-type-crdt

Deep dive int CRDT by the author of Automerge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcWpzY8dIA

Yjs was inspired by:

Sharedb https://github.com/share/sharedb

DerbyJS https://derbyjs.com/