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In Q2, Pantheon doubled down on search: Elasticsearch for WordPress and Solr 9 for Drupal. We’ve also upgraded our Global CDN in partnership with Cloudflare so that all sites can get stronger protection against malicious, automated traffic. Less noise, faster results, stronger infrastructure.

A shared Drupal upstream can push the same code change to hundreds of websites, so one accessibility or code quality issue can quickly scale across an entire web ecosystem. This session shares how UCSB built a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline to test upstream changes before they are released broadly. For each pull request, the workflow uses Push to Pantheon (GitHub Action) to deploy temporary Multidev environments, then runs code quality checks, Drupal deprecation checks, and automated accessibility tests. The pipeline generates HTML and JSON reports and posts GitHub comments with links to the results. It also covers how custom Drush commands and Drupal AI skills for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot can use those same reports to audit findings, assist with safe remediation, and help developers decide when a branch is ready to merge. Attendees will leave with a practical model for reducing release risk, improving remediation workflows, and preventing accessibility and code regressions across many Drupal sites.

We're so excited to be a sponsor of the 2026 eduWeb Summit this week in Florida! Come visit us at Sponsorship Table 11 to learn how Pantheon's years of expertise supporting EDU teams can benefit your web and marketing teams - Senior Marketing Specialist Taylor Stewart and Enterprise Account Executive Katie Laughlin will be there to answer all your questions.

When it comes down to AI and the future of the web, what camp are you in? In Pantheon's AI Manifesto, Josh Koenig breaks the AI debate down into four distinct camps: The AI Utopian The AI Realist The AI Overlord Existentialist The Hype-cycle Hater Scroll to learn about each persona, then drop your type in the comments and find a link to the full manifesto!

The developer talent landscape is changing — and if you're an agency or enterprise making platform decisions today, you need to understand what that means for tomorrow. Drupal and WordPress built their ecosystems on PHP. But the next generation of developers is writing Python and JavaScript. That talent shift isn't just a hiring footnote — it's a signal about where maintainability, velocity, and long-term platform viability are headed. Join Jason Yarrington and Josh Koenig as they break down what this migration in developer preferences actually looks like in practice, why it matters for the agencies building on these stacks, and how enterprise clients should be factoring this into their CMS and platform decisions before it becomes a crisis. What we'll cover: Where PHP developer talent is going — and why The real-world implications for Drupal/WordPress-based agency work How to have the platform longevity conversation with clients What a smart transition strategy looks like Whether you're an agency leader, a developer, or an enterprise decision-maker trying to future-proof your stack — this one's for you.

SNEAK PEEK! 👀 Co-Founder and SVP of Marketing Josh Koenig demos the ability of Google Gemini Enterprise's ADK to automate tedious workflows like mapping a legacy site to a modern design system, and getting the import process started for modern #Drupal Canvas sites. #agenticworkflows #sitemigrations

If you'd rather listen than read — Josh Koenig covered the AI discoverability story on a recent podcast episode. He gets into why agentic citation is becoming a real channel, how it extends the SEO work most teams are already doing, and where to focus first if you're just getting started. Worth a listen alongside the ebook — he goes places the data alone doesn't. 🎧 Link in comments.

As AI tools reshape how web content is discovered and interpreted, every published page becomes part of an organization’s public voice. Yale IT’s Digital Experience team has been evolving YaleSites, Yale’s Drupal-based web platform, to support this shift, aligning platform governance, content stewardship, and publishing practices for an AI-enabled web. #HigherEd #Drupal #DigitalExperience #DXP

Americaneagle.com used Pantheon’s Next.js and Drupal backend to rebuild an underperforming client site with a headless architecture and rewrote their own deployment philosophy along the way. For three decades, they have delivered web design, development, hosting, post-launch support, and digital marketing—building modern websites, integrated ecommerce solutions, mobile apps, and more. When Americaneagle.com inherited their client’s site from a previous agency, the solutions were struggling: - The site was on a self-managed DigitalOcean stack. - It was behind on security patches. - It couldn't reliably stand up to everyday traffic, let alone the constant pressure of bots crawling the Solr search server. - Bot traffic was bleeding through and degrading the experience for authenticated shoppers. The site that was supposed to drive revenue starts was costing it. The problem was architectural. A single monolithic stack means every request—authenticated shoppers, anonymous browsers, bot crawlers, search indexers—all hit the same backend. Daniel Kinney, Americaneagle.com's Drupal Architect, knew exactly where Dixon's site belonged: back on Pantheon. #NextJS #Drupal #SiteMigrations

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