matt glaman
New book · out now

Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers

A deep, practical tour through every caching layer in Drupal — from the render cache to chained fast backends.

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Oct 12, 2025

I can't believe it's already time for DrupalCon Vienna! 

I'll be presenting on Wednesday at 4:15pm with Dripyard's Mike Herchel about How to Land an EPIC Contribution in Drupal (Without Losing Your Mind). We'll talk about some of the contributions we've been able to get committed together and empower others to team up and fix the quirks and irks they have with Drupal!

Over the summer, Acquia launched the product I have been working on: Acquia Source. This is the first event I'll be at since it launched and can't wait to talk about it. Curious? Find me at our booth or in the hallway and ask!

Aug 29, 2025

Simplytest back up and running!

If you've been a user of Simplytest, I've just completed a round of maintenance, and everything should be up and running again. The service must have been spamming the Drupal.org APIs and caused itself to get blocked. I've worked with the DA team, and now Simplytest can make API requests again to get project and release data.

#drupal  #simplytest.me
Jun 19, 2025

Learning it's okay to acknowledge you have a disability

For the past few years, I've been struggling to acknowledge that I have a disability. It's not something new. I've grown up this way. I just never called it a disability because I always thought, "Well, it could be worse," or "It's not as bad as others have it". 

#personal
Jun 02, 2025

Why I've self-nominated for the Drupal Association At-Large Board Seat at this moment

I had been considering a self-nomination for the Drupal Association At-Large Board Seat a few times. This year, I decided to throw my hat into the ring. I've been a bit busy with baseball season kicking off (three kids, three teams 🫠) that I haven't written a blog yet, but I will, explaining why I've considered now the right time. 

#drupal
Apr 11, 2025

My site is now on Drupal 11.1! I was able to jump from 10.4 to 11.1 without any hiccups. I also used it as a chance to clean up some unused modules instead of upgrading to ones compatible with 11.1 - like media_entity_instagram that I never used and disqus which hasn't been working for a while.

Nov 26, 2024

Restrict Composer dependency updates to only patch releases

I was doing website maintenance and checked for outdated dependencies with composer outdated. I usually filter with -D for checking direct dependencies and -p for packages with patch releases. These are typically easy pickings.

#drupal  #composer