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One of the great advantages of decoupled architecture is its ability to weather spikes in web traffic. With a traditional CMS, a sudden burst of traffic could overwhelm the server and paralyze your site, including the administration interface, which may only be used by a small fraction of your users. With a headless architecture, heavy traffic on the front-end can have little to no impact to the back-end.

At Chapter Three, we have a tight-knit team of experts in strategy, design, development, and project management. Our team members hold Drupal 9/10 developer and front-end certifications, demonstrating our technical expertise and commitment to staying at the forefront of web development best-practices.

In Part 1 of this series, we focused on innovation at Chapter Three. There was a lot to talk about there, from Next-Drupal and its various features, to the many original modules that Chapter Three developers have contributed to the Drupal universe. This post focuses on how we at Chapter Three are not only innovators, but also leaders.

The saying “content is king”, a cliche at this point, hearkens to an essay written by Bill Gates in 1996 about the future of the Internet, in which he predicted that “those who succeed will propel the Internet forward as a marketplace of ideas, experiences, and products—a marketplace of content.”

Why do we call ourselves “Chapter Three”? It’s often said that in a novel, the real action doesn’t start until three chapters in, with the first two used to set up the characters and the scene. We like to think of ourselves as a place where the “real action” takes place, hence the name Chapter Three. It’s a name we landed on nearly two decades ago and one that still suits us.

The first DrupalCon of 2024 kicks off today and we are excited! Portland is always fun to visit, and this DrupalCon looks like a particularly good program, with topics ranging from Drupal 7 migration to AI integration to Drupal 11.

Drupal’s entity relationship system is incredibly robust and powerful, but there is a messy dark side to this power. Countless times I’ve struggled to find a field because I assumed it was just in ...


The “Drush generate” command is one of my favorite Drupal features. Scaffolding out boilerplate code with a few keystrokes feels great and it helps me avoid those tiny, hard-to-find human mistakes.

For organizations with diversified business operations, there are pros and cons to operating multiple websites. On the pros side, you get to give each website its own personality, with its own branding and distinct domain name.

At Chapter Three we do more than build websites from the ground up. We also support existing websites that require new or additional resources. The type of work we do is flexible and depends on the client’s needs.