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Monitoring Drupal Site Status at Scale

For many agencies, and large organisations that have tens or hundreds of Drupal sites, it can be difficult to keep tabs on which sites have what modules installed and whether they are up to date or not. Manually crawling through each site can be time consuming and error prone.

In this post, I describe a solution that allows you to keep a dashboard of site status information that you can query to find out precisely what is going on on each of your sites.

High Availability Drupal 8 on Microsoft Azure

In this blog post we will take you though all the components required to provision a high availability Drupal 8 stack on Microsoft Azure. This is an extract from the demonstration given at Microsoft Ignite on the Gold Coast in November 2015.

aGov for Drupal 8: First Alpha Release

Since 2012, PreviousNext has been developing and maintaining the aGov distribution for Drupal 7. aGov provides a means for Australian Government organisations to meet their accessibility and security obligations with free and open-source software hosted on the platform of their choice.

In the last few weeks we have been working on the Drupal 8 version, and are happy to announce today the first Alpha release!

In this post we share some of our experiences developing a Drupal 8 distribution.

Lead Drupal Developer

Logging in a Docker Hosting World

Docker is reinventing the way we package and deploy our applications, bringing new challenges to hosting. In this blog post I will provide a recipe for logging your Docker packaged applications.

Managed Drupal and aGov websites on Microsoft Azure in Australia

In recent months, PreviousNext has been privileged to be part of Microsoft’s APAC Open Source Partner Accelerator program. With Microsoft now providing full support for open source technologies running on the Azure cloud services platform, the partner program has focused on initiatives for PreviousNext to deploy, manage and support customer’s Drupal sites hosted on Microsoft Azure.

Drupal 8 in Government - Trends from the USA

PreviousNext was recently invited to present on the Australian government’s adoption of Drupal at Drupal GovCon in Washington DC.  The conference was a great success, with over 1,200 attendees discovering how Drupal is providing solutions to complex business challenges for a broad and diverse range of government related organisations.

Government Services Manager

DrupalCon Barcelona Session Preview: Drupal-generated markup is not your friend. Use a Styleguide!

We all make the common mistake of directly styling out-of-the-box Drupal markup because it is perceived faster at first glance. But if we're to build maintainable and scalable design systems we need to look at more sustainable approaches. My session looks at design components with a living styleguide and how this will help us leading into the release of Drupal 8 and beyond.

Front-End Developer

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