Upgrading Acquia.com from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8: The Developer Perspective
![Upgrading Acquia from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 for Developers](/sites/default/files/styles/legacy_inline_image/public/legacy/images/2018-08/Webinar%201920%20x%20628_4.png?itok=LV1uXuG8)
Thinking of upgrading your website to Drupal 8, or using it for the first time on a new project? Are you a developer and not sure where to start? Let the lessons we learned be your guide.
Our development team recently faced a challenging project: upgrading Acquia.com from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 while simultaneously doing a total redesign.
During this preview into our development process, you’ll learn about:
- Local setups
- Configuration management
- Composer
- Translation
- Paragraphs and site building
- Migration
Join Acquia’s Adrianna Shukla, web operations manager, Nichole Frazier, a front-end developer, and Stephen Dix, a technical architect, as they talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly, and host a Q&A.
![Adrianna Shukla, web operations manager, Acquia](/sites/default/files/styles/legacy_inline_image/public/legacy/images/2018-11/Adrianna%20headshot_4.jpg?itok=QVx_Wti5)
![Stephen Dix, technical architect, Acquia](/sites/default/files/styles/legacy_inline_image/public/legacy/images/2018-08/picture_0_4.jpg?itok=6yJDABaY)
If you missed our first higher-level overview webinar of the lessons we learned from our replatform and redesign, please click here to watch the on-demand recording.