Janez Urevc

Drupal Migration Series

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 --- In the second episode of our three-part series on the ETL Migration process, we delve into the most involved stage of Drupal migration: Transformation. This episode features insights from Tag1 Consulting’s experts, including Mike Ryan, co-creator of Drupal Migrate, and notable contributor Benji Fisher. They analyze the Transformation phase in the ETL process, specifically examining Drupal’s unique “row-by-row” approach, and the discussion...

Janez Urevc

Drupal Migration Series

Our latest episode of Tag1 Team Talks is an insightful guide through the Extract phase of the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process in Drupal migrations. Hosted by Janez Urevc, the episode features experts Mike Ryan and Benji Fisher, who offer a deep understanding of data extraction relevant to migrations from older versions of Drupal (6,7,8) or other CMS platforms altogether and more.

Michael Meyers

Join us for an update on Gander, the automated performance testing framework making waves in Drupal Core. Developed by Tag1 Consulting and the Google Chrome team, Gander is set to transform how we approach performance testing. In this Tag1 Team Talk Mariano Crivello, Nat Catchpole, and Michael Meyers share the story behind Gander's development. Learn how it's simplifying performance testing...

Michael Meyers

Drupal Migrations Series

Hosted by Michael Meyers, - Managing Director of Tag1 Consulting, and Janez Urevc, Sr. Engineer at Tag 1. This podcast series focuses on the strategies involved in upgrading and migrating Drupal websites and applications. This is the last episode in a mini series in which we aim to answer the common question: “How much will my migration cost?” Spoiler alert: It’s complicated. We team up with Lucas Hedding one more time to help demystify the...

Michael Meyers

Drupal Migration Series

This podcast series focuses on the strategies involved in upgrading and migrating Drupal websites and applications. 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.

Michael Meyers

Drupal Migration Series

Co-hosted by Michael Meyers, Managing Director of Tag1 Consulting, and Janez Urevc, Sr. Engineer at Tag 1. This podcast series focuses on the strategies involved in upgrading and migrating Drupal websites and applications.

Michael Meyers

Drupal Migration Series

This first episode of the Drupal Migration series of Tag1 TeamTalks focuses on the intricate process of migrating large-scale applications, especially with the end of life of Drupal 7 and 9 approaching.

Michael Meyers

Drupal Migration Series

In another Halloween-themed episode of Tag1 Team Talks, Janez Urevc shared a challenging migration story from his past. The project involved transitioning a media organization from an in-house proprietary CMS to Drupal, facing resistance from the existing development team attached to their custom system.

Michael Meyers

Drupal Migration Series

In this Halloween-themed episode of Tag1 TeamTalks, Benji Fisher, a top contributor to Drupal, shares two chilling platform migration stories. In the first tale, set in 2019, Benji tackled a government website project with a tight deadline. The initial plan to use the unstable feeds module for Drupal 8 was alarming, given the project's complexity. Benji opted for the more reliable Migrate API to handle the intricate XML data structure, a decision that ultimately paid...

Jeremy Andrews

2002: A Web Odyssey
My first Drupal migration was onto a heavily patched version of Drupal 4.0, back in 2002. I previously ran a popular kernel development blog called KernelTrap, using PHPNuke. I conducted interviews with prominent kernel developers, and posted blog entries about other interesting kernel news, all of which were frequently linked to from the front page of Slashdot (the leading tech news aggregator at the time). This resulted in huge traffic spikes, which would frequently bring...