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A plain-language guide to AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, skills, prompts and agent profiles, with real stories from maintaining a Drupal site and the open-source AI Engineering Toolkit that came out of them.
Learn how a Drupal chatbot finds relevant published articles, uses Ollama to generate answers, and displays source links while keeping inference on your own hardware.
Compare GitHub Copilot, hosted review apps, custom review pipelines, and local models, with implementation steps, security boundaries, and practical pros and cons.
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Learn how Drupal determines the real client IP behind Akamai, a CDN, reverse proxies, or Acquia hosting, including AH_CLIENT_IP, trusted headers, and spoofing risks.
Build a layered Drupal form protection strategy with Honeypot, CAPTCHA, rate limiting, and a custom abusive-word validation service for contact forms.
A practical guide to configuring Drupal CORS for JSON:API, REST, decoupled frontends, credentialed requests, preflight debugging, and secure production deployments.
A practical guide to Drupal cache layers: how Redis, Memcached, Varnish, and CDNs differ, where each sits, and how cache tags and purge keep content fresh.
A practical guide to Acquia Cloud actions for Drupal teams: code deploys, database and file copies, backups, Drush commands, Cloud Hooks, automation, and release runbooks.
A practical guide to common GitHub Actions workflows: PHPCS, PHPStan, CodeQL, dependency review, Docker image builds, container scans, Lighthouse tests, smoke tests, and deployment gates.
A practical guide to writing Dockerfiles for Drupal: multi-stage builds, Composer dependencies, PHP extensions, WebP support, Apache docroot, .dockerignore, file permissions, secrets, and CI image verification.
A practical Drupal guide to sending site email through a company SMTP server, including SMTP module setup, credentials, TLS, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, testing, troubleshooting, and production safety.
A practical introduction to building a personal cloud or home lab server: data ownership, learning, privacy, cost control, tradeoffs, security, backups, and a starter roadmap.