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Codebases tend to accumulate junk over time. This comes in the form of disorganized code, "temporary" fixes that have become permanent when no one was paying attention, things that work but could use performance tweaks, and modules included in the codebase that are no longer used.

The security team of the open source project Drupal has published today, September 16, several security bulletins for the project core in its versions 7, 8 and 9. The security bulletins are the product of the great work that the project does to maintain good security practices. As always, the recommendation is to update to the most recent version.

To create a payment gateway in Drupal, a specific payment method must be created. A generic module must be developed that can be contributed in a way that does not depend on sensitive or specific information from the project for which it initially belongs.

In this conference we will talk about digital transformation, a growing and important topic in Latin America. It consists of diagnosing the digital capabilities of companies and developing customer-focused strategies, transforming and adapting to the culture, collaborative and agile skills, always accompanied by technology.

When installing Percona DB we have available a script called clustercheck located in /usr/bin/clustercheck this script will help us to give a status to HAProxy on our node.

BackstopJS is an open source tool for testing web applications, focusing on how your application looks from the end user's perspective. Automates visual regression testing of your responsive web UI by comparing screenshots over time.

The Drupal community has built-in security measures to combat threats, which is certainly reassuring. To proactively protect your site, the concept of security should be top of mind when launching campaigns, integrating systems/applications, or when deploying or updating software. 

At SeeD we have done web development with Drupal since its version 5, in the process we have seen the evolution of the platform and the successes it has had in its evolution as well as the improvements that the community has heard from those who use it on a daily basis. , it has been a long and pleasant path in which we have grown together with the community.

When you are working on a standard Drupal installation, you have content and users and the users have a layer of permissions to access all of that content, however sometimes you might want to make some small sections of your site behave like small communities or you may want only certain users to have access or control over a small portion of the content, in those cases this is where the Group module makes sense.

Upgrading to newer versions of Drupal in the past was a significant change effort that required substantial investment and a non-trivial release window.