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DrupalCamp Italy 2026
«Evoluzione Enterprise senza "Big Bang": lo Strangler Fig Pattern con Drupal»
When: October 22, 17:05–17:45
Where: Savoia Hotel Regency, Bologna · Room A
Speaker: Adriano Cori, Software Engineer
Language: Italian

Rebuilding a Drupal portal from scratch takes months before it starts delivering value and concentrates all the risk into a single night’s release. The Strangler Fig Pattern does the opposite: a Next.js frontend runs alongside Drupal on the same domain and replaces its theme one section at a time, and each section can be switched back to Drupal with a simple configuration change.

The Page Delivery modules, which we use to implement this method, will be released as open source on drupal.org on 22 October, to coincide with DrupalCamp Italy 2026.

On the ‘Incremental Migration with the Strangler Fig Pattern’ page, you’ll find details of how this coexistence works, the eight checks that must be carried out before migrating each family of pages, the limitations of the method and how to get started.