Drupal migration is one of those projects that stays comfortably in next quarter’s plan until a date makes it urgent. Two dates are doing that right now, and only one of them is in the future. Drupal 7 lost official support on 5 January 2025. Any site still running it has been going without security coverage for well...
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Organisations that need to hire a Drupal developer are usually running something substantial: a university site with forty departments, a public sector portal with accessibility obligations, a membership platform where permissions genuinely matter. Drupal rarely gets chosen for brochureware. It gets chosen when the...
Most companies decide to hire a Symfony developer at the worst possible moment. The lead engineer has just resigned, an upgrade has stalled halfway, or a checkout page has started timing out under load. Suddenly the search is urgent, the shortlist is thin, and the first plausible CV looks very tempting. That is exactly...
A legacy PHP application is often the software equivalent of a building that has been extended a dozen times: it works, the business depends on it, and nobody wants to touch it. Old PHP versions, no tests, mixed concerns, and years of accumulated shortcuts make every change risky. The good news is that legacy PHP...
Symfony and Laravel are the two dominant PHP frameworks, and both are excellent. They are also more similar than the “which is better” debates suggest: Laravel is actually built on top of several Symfony components. The real question is not which is superior in the abstract, but which fits your project, your team, and...