DrupalCon Denver 2012: CHANGING THE TIRES AT 60 MPH: HOW MARTHA STEWART LIVING MIGRATED TO DRUPAL

This talk covers the challenges of building a high-traffic Drupal site from the ground up while simultaneously maintaining a legacy site. The speakers delve into how Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia managed the migration from Vignette to Drupal, running both systems concurrently under the same domains. They discuss the strategies implemented to keep the legacy site updated, the use of an internal Drupal installation as a content repository, and the integration of Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 environments to manage user accounts and comments effectively. Key topics include the effective management of ongoing data migration, the use of caching layers in enterprise Drupal installations, and the various contrib modules that powered the MSLO websites. Attendees will gain insights from both a technical and project management perspective on how to execute such complex transitions.