Migrating a 20 Year Old Perl Application to Drupal / DrupalCon North America 2021
About this talk
This talk covers how the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) successfully updated a 20-year-old Perl-based website and migrated over 100,000 pieces of content into 14 distinct categories. The speaker discusses the challenges faced during this massive undertaking and the strategies implemented in managing such a substantial content transformation. Additionally, the session explores how the new architecture utilizes multiple Solr interfaces to enhance data accessibility and search functionality for users.
