E13 | Migrating from Drupal to Contentful | Teemu Tammela

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In this episode, we chat all about migrating from Drupal to Contentful with my guest Teemu Tammela, a Certified Contentful Professional, Contentful Partner and software developer.

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Questions Asked

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• Tell us about your background
  
• Why did you decide to migrate to Contentful from Drupal?
  
• What where your goals when migrating into Contentful?
  
• What were your responsibilities in the migration project?
  
• What was your biggest pain point during the migration?
  
• Tell us how you used the Contentful Management API during the migration
  
• Tell us about your migration planning.
  
• Did you create a new content model or migrated the current Drupal content model?
  
• Did you create a custom migration script or used the Contentful migration scripts?
  
• Tell us about the ORM library you used for mapping.
  
• Did you use GraphQL for any migration?
  
• If you used GraphQL vs REST, do you think the migration would have gone faster?
  
• How was your Contentful architecture different from your Drupal architecture?
  
• Tell us about your tech stack both for Contentful and Drupal.
  
• When you were migrating, did Contentful support multiple environments?
  
• What's the difference between the scripts you wrote for migrating and the migration scripts that Contentful offers?
  
• How did you use the Contentful CLI for your migration?
  
• Tell us about the 3 types of migrations.
  
• How did you migrate entry IDs?
  
• Tell us about your media asset migration plan.
  
• Are you storing your media assets in Contentful as a media type?
  
• Did you consider using a DAM for your assets such as Cloudinary?
  
• Tell us about your Drupal plugins and how did you migrate the functionality they provided into Contentful?
  
• Did you migrate any Drupal front end templates into Contentful?
  
• For those that want to migrate Drupal front end templates into Contentful, are there scripts that will do that for you?
  
• How did you migrate rich text fields form Drupal to Contentful?
  
• Did you have a rollback plan just in case the scripts failed?
  
• What do you wish Contentful has that you liked in Drupal?
  
• If you could only offer one tip for migration, what would that be?