Flexible Authoring with Structured Content
As a writer or editor for your organization’s website, you should be able to quickly write articles or build pages that are collections of smaller elements.
Posts in Drupal
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Overcoming Cisco AnyConnect VPN and Vagrant Incompatibilites
On some of our projects, we have a requirement to connect to a VPN for server access. Our team was having an issue specifically with Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client on Mac OSX making vagrant based local development environments become non-responsive. After connecting to the VPN, SSH inside the Vagrant box would stop working, as well as visiting any local domains. From what I've gathered, Cisco AnyConnect can be a bit aggressive with local networking.
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Getting Started with Drupal 8 Migrations
We do a lot of Drupal 8 migrations here at Aten. From older versions of Drupal and Wordpress, to custom SQL Server databases, to XML and JSON export files: it feels like we’ve imported content from just about every data source imaginable. Fortunately for us, the migration system in Drupal 8 is extremely powerful. It’s also complicated. Here’s a quick-start guide for getting started with your next migration to Drupal 8.
GraphQL with Drupal: Getting Started
GraphQL is a trendy, front-end friendly alternative to REST. Take a look at what GraphQL means for Drupal, and learn how to install and use it!
Decoupled Drupal + Gatsby: Automating Deployment
How to set up an automated deployment so that when you update content on your Drupal site, it will automatically rebuild your Gatsby site on Netlify.
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Decoupled Drupal + Gatsby: Getting Started
Configuring Gatsby to run with Drupal 8 isn't difficult, but there are some tricks to it.
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Drupal 8 Migration with Multiple Paragraph References
Recently, I ran into an issue migrating Paragraph Entities (Entity Reference Revisions) that had a few open core bugs and it ended up being really simple to solve within
prepareRowin the source plugin. It will be nice when the migration_lookup plugin can properly handle this use case, but it’s a good thing to understand how prepareRow can provide flexibility. 
Handling Time Zones in a Progressively Decoupled Drupal Application
When building an event management application recently, we ran into a number of time zone related issues. For example: two logged in users could see different times for the same event. Here's how we fixed it (and all the other annoying bugs we found along the way).
Managing Development in Git Despite an Unwieldy Composer Update
Sometimes running composer update can cause unexpected problems. Here is the procedure we use to keep our short-term changes separate from our local updates, keeping your local site error-free.
Consolidating Websites Using Pantheon Upstreams
This post looks at custom Pantheon Upstreams as the ideal solution for spinning up multiple sites that are easy to maintain and affordable to scale.
