Performance Preparing for a high traffic event, simple steps to success The steps that any new launch or high traffic event should go through in order to have the best chance of success.
Drupal Search API attachments and storing reasonable amounts of data Search API Attachments has a setting that allows you to store only the most important information in the database.
Drupal How to add sub tabs under the User profile in Drupal 8 A simple step by step tutorial on adding a custom sub tab in a user's profile in Drupal 8.
Drupal How the feeds module in Drupal 7 ended up causing MySQL to sever the connection This is a short story on an interesting problem we were having with the Feeds module and Feeds directory fetcher module in Drupal 7.
Drupal PHP 7.3 and when you can upgrade your Drupal site PHP 7.3.0 was released in December 2018, and brings with it a number of improvements in both performance and the language. As always with Drupal you need to strike a balance between adopting these new improvements early and running into issues
Drupal Custom Cloudflare WAF rules that every Drupal site should run This blog post helps to summarise some of the default rules I will deploy to every Drupal (7 or 8) site as a base line.
Drupal JSON:API testing with Cypress Upgrading JSON:API and Drupal core can be tricky to keep your API intact. Using Cypress is an easy way to have an extra set of eyeballs on the upgrade.
Drupal 10 things I learnt building in Drupal 8 Some of the neat things I have found with Drupal 8 and some of my lessons learned
Drupal Writing PHPunit tests for your custom modules in Drupal 8 Integrating PHPunit into your custom modules is now even easier.
Drupal Measuring Drupal content growth over time A graphical way to see how your Drupal site content is growing over time
Drupal Dynamic content caching based on attributes in Drupal 7 Simple code to maximise your varnish hitrate
Drupal Debugging Drupal performance with Cache Debug module Finding the offenders breaking your caching strategy
Drupal How to add subtabs under the User Edit tab in Drupal Get your tabs to appear on the user edit page
Drupal Using git pre-commit hooks to keep your Drupal codebase clean Sick of committing debug code to your git repo?
