Sector(s)
California State University Bakersfield’s Extended Education division offers various degrees, certificates, and professional development programs for adult students with busy work and family schedules. They saw demand for information and courses expand with the COVID pandemic and the increasing need for both online and in-person classes.
Upgrading to Drupal 10... and Decoupled
Surging demand and a need to carefully manage their resources led the Cal State Bakersfield Extended Education team to contact us for help. To address the long-term health of their website and potential future changes, they needed to upgrade to Drupal 10, and wanted to save money on hosting.
About the project
The Next.js platform and our particular use case has been very smooth for us. As has been the case with Drupal historically, we could customize our back-end experience to our liking for our content editors with virtually no restrictions, but we can deliver a far superior front-end experience through the headless/Next.js architecture for our prospective students – our users/customers. Users have noticed speed improvements and content editors are pleased with the content editing experience and the speed at which they can make and test changes.
- Stacey Childress, Director of Marketing and Systems - Extended Education and Global Outreach, California State University Bakersfield
Why Drupal was chosen
In discussing the Drupal 10 upgrade and hosting issues, we presented an opportunity to create a more robust, secure and fast site as part of this upgrade: moving to decoupling their site using Next-Drupal, the Next.js implementation built by Chapter Three.
Technical Specifications
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