7 years ago we started thinking about a new web landscape and the daunting thought of migrating 600 websites from our Drupal 7 monolith to a new ecosystem with more flexibility, less code and enable growth in our developer community.

• A continuous improvement model
• Single codebase serving multiple instances
• Futureproof shareable development processes
• Freedom to build on each website
• Deploy at scale as and when needed
• Encourage developer contributions. 

We wanted to fully adopt the Drupal model…less code, more functionality, less barriers, more features and modernize content management across the university. Offer something a service that surpassed what schools across the university would have no choice but to buy into and change the way we do websites at The University of Edinburgh. 

My presentation will cover our journey from conception, to building, migration and the future.