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Advice for preparing for a Drupal-focused technical intervie

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming technical interview for a Drupal-focused full-stack role, and I would appreciate some guidance from experienced Drupal developers.

From my conversation with the interviewer, I expect the interview to involve reviewing existing code, tracing complete workflows, identifying production issues, and explaining improvements. The organization is also planning work around upgrading from Drupal 10 to Drupal 11.

The areas I believe may be covered include:

  • Custom modules, routes, controllers, services, entities, and forms
  • Twig, Drupal behaviors, AJAX, and JavaScript
  • Caching, queues, cron, and external API integrations
  • SQL, database consistency, and performance
  • Testing and deployment
  • Drupal 10-to-11 upgrade readiness
  • Composer dependencies, deprecated APIs, and contributed-module compatibility

My background is stronger in general software engineering than in PHP and Drupal. I have been using AI-assisted exercises and small Drupal code-review challenges to prepare, but I want to make sure I am learning the right concepts and not developing an unrealistic understanding of production Drupal work.

For someone interviewing at roughly the three-year experience level:

  1. What Drupal concepts would you consider essential?
  2. What code-review or debugging exercises should I practice?
  3. What questions are commonly asked about Drupal 10-to-11 upgrades?
  4. How deeply should I understand Symfony, Composer, Drush, testing, SQL, and deployment?
  5. What mistakes do candidates commonly make in Drupal technical interviews?

Any practical examples, learning resources, or advice about what to prioritize would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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DeepSeek V4 Pro is returning HTTP 429 "Rate limit exceeded"

Jun 11, 17:42 UTC
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.

Jun 11, 14:31 UTC
Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

Jun 11, 14:30 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Jun 11, 14:24 UTC
Investigating - We are currently facing issues with Gradient AI DeepSeek V4 Pro is returning HTTP 429 "Rate limit exceeded"

Drupal (AI) Playground: AI is making great programmers even greater, and not-so-great programmers, well, not-so-great

Drupal (AI) Playground: AI is making great programmers even greater, and not-so-great programmers, well, not-so-great

See how I start with the statement "AI is making great programmers even greater and not-so-great programmers, well, not-so-great" and somehow end up concluding that everyone needs to be open to "vibe coding" with Drupal.

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AMS2 Network Maintenance

Jun 10, 18:30 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Jun 10, 15:30 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Jun 8, 15:41 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2026-06-10 15:30 UTC
End: 2026-06-10 18:30 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the AMS2 region.

Expected impact:

These changes are designed and tested to be seamless. We do not expect any customer impact during the mentioned timeframe. If an unexpected issue arises, there could be a temporary loss of connectivity for Droplets and its dependent services, such as Managed Databases, Load Balancers, App Platform, and Managed Kubernetes, in the AMS2 region. We will endeavor to minimize any such impact.

If you have any questions related to this issue, please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

How to disable bfcache and browser disk cache for a page?

I'm trying to prevent a page from being restored from the browser's Back/Forward Cache (bfcache) in a Drupal site.

I have the following response headers set:

Permissions-Policy: unload=() Expires: 0 Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, private 

My understanding was that these headers would prevent caching, but the page is still being restored from bfcache when navigating back and forward.

Am I missing something? Do these headers have any effect on bfcache, or is there another recommended way to prevent a page from being stored and restored from bfcache?

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Media Type Permissions Suggestions

Private files are accessible through URL regardless of taxonomy access.

I have a site with a multi tenant situation including different roles for each tenant. I'm managing access to content through taxonomy terms and views, which works well so far. However, I have different file types that should be accessible to different roles within one tenant. Content or files of one tenant should never be visible to anyone (user or role) of another tenant.

I have only found the global access permission "view media". When that is not checked for my role, I can't access the file even though I see it in the view (which makes sense). However, when that is checked for the role, the role has access to any file (including other tenants) through the url (even if they don't have access to the view that would link to the file).

Is there a module that can differentiate view media permissions by media type? My research only showed small, instable or experimental modules.
Or do you have any other suggestions on how I could solve this issue?

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What to read: A summer book list

5 June 2026 at 05:00
Nick Srnicek details the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, and how a handful of big tech companies, and the U.S. and China, are jostling to control its development. Their actions...

Β© Alex Nabaum for Rest of World

Pure site building, 0 code: Do customers / friends pass you by vibe coding with Loveable and others?

Hello everybody,

I'm helping customers with specific types of sites (similar to customer portals) which often contain some part of basic functionality and a lot of custom ideas.

My approach is usually 0 code (if I can avoid it).

So I'm really deep inside configuration / modules / etc.

Parts can be easily exported as configurations / recipes.

Some other parts are often quite custom.

Custom views with custom permissions, tags, ECA etc.

I see some customers / people I know just vibe coding everything in Lovable and similar solutions and I'm still clicking around in the admin area.

For the configuration / site building part of Drupal where you configure specific modules etc.:
Do you use any AI?
How to improve building speed there?

(not talking about Canvas landing pages - more features like inquiries, customer dashboards etc.)

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