Is Custom Web Development the Right Choice For Your Business?
By Jorge Valdez, September 30, 2024Custom web development involves creating a complete web solution from scratch, tailored to the specific goals and needs of a business. In this article, we will explore what does it entail, its benefits for organizations, and more.
Drupal CMS: Transforming the Drupal Experience for All Users
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, September 24, 2024Discover how Drupal CMS, developed by the Drupal Starshot Initiative, transforms the CMS experience with features like Recipes, AI tools, and an enhanced Page Builder called Experience Builder, making site building easier and more accessible for all users.
Hybrid CMS: The Best of Both Worlds?
By Jorge Valdez, September 16, 2024Discover how a hybrid CMS bridges the gap between traditional and headless systems, offering the flexibility of APIs with the ease of front-end management, making it the best of both worlds for modern content delivery.
Drupal Decoupled: Pushing Drupal Further Than Ever
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, September 10, 2024Leverage the power of Drupal, one of the most robust open-source CMS platforms, with our unique decoupled approach: Drupal Decoupled. Discover how Drupal Decoupled can help you enhance your website and benefit your business in this decoupled environment.
Playwright vs Cypress: Our Experience with Automation Testing Frameworks
By Michelle Aguilar, August 28, 2024The ongoing debate between Playwright and Cypress frameworks has always been a matter of experience. On one side, the user experience, a customer tailored automation could anticipate problems in different environments and situations. On the other, the developer experience improves as some testing web applications to detect failures may ease the workflow, improving execution speed.
To Decouple or Not to Decouple: The Scoop on Decoupled CMS
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, August 7, 2024Decoupled CMS is increasingly becoming the gold standard for large companies and organizations — anyone who needs a robust multisite environment. This article will outline what it is, including its subtle differences from headless CMS, and help you decide whether this structure is right for you.
How to Connect Multiple CMS APIs Using a Supergraph?
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, July 30, 2024Discover how to connect multiple CMSs using a Supergraph and Composabase, an enterprise-grade yet accessible GraphQL API-powered layer. This combination makes the process easier, faster, and more effective.
A Brief Introduction To Web Accessibility (A11y)
By Rosa López, July 22, 2024This brief introductory article aims to highlight the world of web accessibility, or A11y, covering its concepts, principles, and implementation tools, intended for all technology professionals, both technical and non-technical, to ensure an inclusive digital experience for everyone.
5 Benefits of a Composable CMS
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, July 16, 2024A composable CMS offers all the benefits of a pure headless solution while eliminating many complexities and limitations. Discover its characteristics, benefits, and real-world use cases in this article.
First Impressions of the Universal CMS
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, July 9, 2024Here are our first thoughts on the concept of the Universal CMS, a new paradigm in content management proposed by Preston So, that caters to both technical and non-technical users, balancing developer flexibility with marketer control.
2024 Pride Month: Promoting LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity in Tech
By Flavio Juárez, July 4, 2024Learn about Octahedroid’s Pride Month initiatives, exploring LGBTQIA+ representation in tech, the importance of DE&I programs, and our commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace through education and awareness.
Headless CMS vs Traditional CMS: Which to Choose?
By Jorge Valdez, June 18, 2024The headless CMS and the traditional CMS both have many advantages. The size and developer capacity of your organization will influence your choice. In this article, we give you a comparison of each.
How to use GraphQL with Drupal: A comparison between GraphQL v3 and v4
By Luis Dueñas, June 11, 2024In this article, we'll compare GraphQL v3 and v4 in Drupal to understand the main differences between both, and how the latest version improves efficiency and productivity.
Drupal as a Composable CMS: The Next Generation of Structured Content
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, June 4, 2024Explore our journey towards Drupal as a composable CMS that we presented in our latest DrupalCon Portland 2024 session. This article highlights key milestones and challenges in making Drupal more modular, flexible, and user-friendly.
Data-Driven Testing vs Keyword-Driven Testing: How to choose between testing methodologies?
By Michelle Aguilar, May 24, 2024In this article, we compare Data-Driven Testing and Keyword-Driven Testing, highlighting their features, differences, and challenges to help you decide which methodology best suits your team's needs.
Notes from the DrupalCon Portland 2024 Keynote
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, May 21, 2024The latest DrupalCon North America 2024 was in Portland, Oregon. The Opening Keynote, aka Driesnote, touched on some interesting topics about the current state and the future of Drupal. I will try to elaborate on some points from my perspective and the needs of our enterprise customers at Octahedroid.
Scraping Content from HTML Source in Drupal
By Gerardo Cadau, May 9, 2024Continuing our series on migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10, we take you through our step-by-step method for scraping content from HTML sources in Drupal.
21 Web Application Security Best and WORST Practices
By Iván de Gyves, April 29, 2024Web app security best practices are one of the most important aspects of any modern business or professional website. In our article, we show you what to do and what NOT to do to increase your web app security.
Drupal 7 to Drupal 10: Full Step-by-Step Migration Guide and a Real-Life Drupal Migration Example
By Gerardo Cadau, April 17, 2024Learn how to migrate your website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 with our full guide on the topic, and a real-life migration example. Start migrating your website before the end of life of Drupal 7.
How to Integrate Adobe Marketo Engage Forms in Drupal Using React?
By Luis Dueñas, April 10, 2024Learn how to integrate Marketo Engage forms into Drupal using a popular frontend framework, such as React. Customize the form's appearance and behavior, which you can also apply to headless sites, by following the steps in this article.
What Does It Mean To Be A Woman In STEM: 6 Lessons From The Women In Octahedroid
By Flavio Juárez, March 29, 2024Learn more about what it means to be a woman in STEM with the Octahedroid team as they share their stories, lessons learned along the way, and advice for other women in the field or those aspiring to be part of it.
Why Drupal as a Headless CMS is the Future of Content Management
By Jorge Valdez, August 22, 2023Discover the power of Drupal as a headless CMS for modern businesses. Benefit from decoupled architecture, robust content management, seamless integrations, API-first approach, and impressive scalability.
Simplifying Redirects: Moving from Drupal to a Headless Site
By Luis Dueñas, August 9, 2023In this blog post, we discover how we tackled the challenge of redirecting users during the migration from Drupal to a headless setup. Learn how we harnessed the power of Cloudflare’s KV Workers, Netlify, and Drupal to ensure a smooth migration process.
Non-coding Women in Tech at Octahedroid
By Doc. Tahedroid, July 25, 2023Octahedroid's tech-savvy women shine in a male-dominated tech landscape, tackling hurdles with resilience. Transitioning from web design to project management and by blending creativity with technology, their journeys exemplify determination and adaptability.
Why Developer Experience Drives Success in Software Development
By Doc. Tahedroid, July 13, 2023Discover why prioritizing DX unlocks developer potential, builds trust, and ensures a competitive edge in the ever-changing tech landscape.
Taking Pride in STEM: Octahedroid Shaping a Diverse Future
By Doc. Tahedroid, June 28, 2023Empowering LGBTQIA+ Voices: Dive into our blog post to explore the role of diversity and support in shaping a thriving tech community.
DrupalCon 2023: Community and the Path to Innovation
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, June 14, 2023Discover the vibrant world of DrupalCon 2023, a celebration of community, groundbreaking ideas, and a glimpse into the exciting future of Drupal.
Preview Published and Unpublished Content in a Decoupled Drupal Implementation
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, June 6, 2023Discover the power of a Decoupled Drupal integration with inline previews for published and unpublished content.
A More Inclusive Tech Industry: Meet the Women of Octahedroid
By Doc. Tahedroid, March 8, 2023We believe the stories of women in tech are powerful and inspiring. Meet the women helping us shape the future, whom we're proud to have on our team.
How to Retrieve Drupal Nodes in Draft State in Gatsby Development Mode
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, September 17, 2020Discover a powerful technique to include draft nodes in Gatsby projects when integrating with Drupal, ensuring an accurate preview of unpublished content.
How to Use the Gatsby-image Component with Drupal and GraphQL
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, August 19, 2020Effortlessly display Drupal images in Gatsby projects with a clever technique using custom GraphQL schema and gatsby-image.
How to Create Multilingual Pages Using Gatsby, Drupal and GraphQL
By Jesus Manuel Olivas, July 14, 2020Learn how to seamlessly retrieve multi-language pages from Drupal in Gatsby projects using GraphQL and the entityTranslations feature, expanding your website's reach.