Drupal, Engineering
Incremental Migration with the Strangler Fig Pattern: Decoupling Drupal Without Stopping Your Business
🗓️ October 22, 2026, 5:05 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
📍 Savoia Hotel Regency, Bologna
🎙️ Adriano Cori - Software Engineer
Rebuilding a high-traffic enterprise platform from scratch and attempting a single-night rewrite is a massive threat to business continuity. The answer is not a full rewrite, but an incremental transition.
In this talk, we demonstrate how to run a Next.js decoupled frontend alongside a legacy Drupal monolith under a single shared public domain:
- Low-Latency Edge Routing: Routing traffic at the proxy level without degrading Time To First Byte (TTFB).
- Single Source of Truth: Keeping Drupal as the authoritative data source while running a fully stateless frontend.
- Outbox Pattern & HMAC Signatures: An event-driven cache invalidation loop designed for real-time consistency and security.
- The 8 Route Eligibility Criteria: The governance protocol we use to safely evaluate the migration of every single page.
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