Engineering a Drupal-to-Storyblok Migration Tool: Architectural Decisions and PHP Practices
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[email protected] (Edoardo Dusi)
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Summary
Edoardo Dusi shares the engineering and architectural decisions made by the Storyblok team when building a migration tool from Drupal (a traditional monolithic CMS) to Storyblok (a modern headless CMS). The article covers the shift from monolithic to headless architectures, the real-world challenges of content migration between fundamentally different systems, and the modern PHP practices used to address these challenges.
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This shift brings new challenges, particularly when organizations need to migrate from legacy systems to modern headless platforms.
Our team encountered this scenario when creating a migration path from Drupal to Storyblok.
In this article, Edoardo Dusi shares the engineering and architectural choices made by the team at Storyblok and how real-world migration challenges were addressed using modern PHP practices.
