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This year a fork of Elasticsearch was created called OpenSearch. The reasons behind it are varied, and I'm not going to get into that side of things other than to say there are two sides to every story, and it didn't end well.

Our Skpr hosting platform offers a managed AWS Elasticsearch service. As a result of the split, AWS has deprecated Elasticsearch and is migrating all of its managed services to OpenSearch.

This left us in a bit of a difficult situation.

In this blog post, we explain our rationale for choosing to fork Elasticsearch Connector and create a new Search API OpenSearch module.

As an open-source project, Drupal relies on the sustained contributions of individuals and organisations to keep it well maintained, develop, and grow to stay relevant in a competitive landscape.

The project founder, Dries Buytaert has highlighted the problems many open source projects have of balancing the makers and takers. Increasingly, organisations that have traditionally contributed to Drupal have had challenges keeping the level of contribution going, and have had to look to new ways to support the project.

Sponsoring Drupal contribution is a new and exciting way for PreviousNext to give back to the project as well as the community.

Front-end technology stacks tend to move quickly. At PreviousNext, we have been constantly evolving the tech stack to take advantage of best-practice.

In this post, we take a closer look at the front-end tools we use at PreviousNext in 2021 and some of the rationale behind the decisions.

As a company that's been running since 2009 we've evolved our working culture and approaches over the course of the past decade. When new people do join we provide them with a handbook that outlines how we work together and the benefits we all enjoy, so we wanted to share some of this publicly for people that might be considering roles we're currently advertising.

As a follow up to some recent blog posts, as well as improvements in PHPStorm and ddev, I’d like to share the following configuration for running and debugging tests via PHPStorm's phpunit integration.

After a great turnout in August, the PreviousNext team is co-sponsoring and coordinating the DrupalSouth 2021 Sprint Day (Online) again on Friday 12 November 2021, and there are a few things you can do now to hit the ground running.

Layout plugins in Drupal are typically declared via a YML file, with the regions nominated ahead of time.

But what happens if you need your regions to be dynamic - e.g. an arbitrary number of tabs in a tabset?

In this post we explore how to declare a layout plugin with dynamic regions.

The media and media library modules have improved Drupal's file handling capabilities considerably, but one oft-requested feature of clients is the ability to remove files from disk when removing the associated media entity.

This is where the Media file delete module can help

Securing filter formats is one of the most important tasks when setting up a new site.

But sometimes when you inherit a site you find it wasn't done securely, or perhaps over time the format has gotten a bit lax and you want to make changes.

The Filter Format Audit module makes this task easy.

Drush CMI Tools was the standard approach for config management at PreviousNext prior to Drupal 9. For Drupal 9, Drush CMI tools has been deprecated and replaced by a community-supported project which provides the same functionality — Config Ignore 3.