Case Study: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health resolves a Drupal deployment issue with Code Enigma

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health upgrades to Drupal 9 with Code Enigma after fixing a deployment issue

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, a professional organisation for paediatricians in the UK, faced a mysterious deployment failure during a Drupal upgrade. Their hosting provider, Code Enigma, was asked to investigate the issue, which was complicated by the fact that the pre-live testing environment shared infrastructure with the live site receiving global traffic.

Code Enigma diagnosed the problem as a sequence error related to a database update when switching from the media contrib module to Drupal core media. They resolved the issue by syncing the live database to the pre-live environment for accurate testing. This successful fix allowed for a smooth upgrade to Drupal 8 and a subsequent easy upgrade to Drupal 9. Code Enigma also proactively scaled the hosting infrastructure to handle anticipated traffic spikes during exam periods.

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