Categories: Development

Grav CMS Review

At work we mainly use the Drupal CMS, which is designed to be extremely customizable and has modules to cover every need, but this flexibility requires a ton of abstraction which has its own drawbacks. While the Drupal system is the best all-in-one solution we've found for a variety of reasons, there are many cases where a simpler solution might be superior. There are many other CMS options, such as wordpress, joomla and others, but none of these really follow my ideas of what a CMS should be (…

Flat File vs. Database CMS

The idea of a flat file CMS is intriguing. There's a lot of overhead in a database and CMS content doesn't change much, and isn't highly structured. CMS content more closely resembles a document than data, and the filesystem is very fast at dealing with documents in the form of files. Let's explore some benefits of a CMS and flat file systems. CRUD Performance When using a file per content item, basic operations can be performed with a single contiguous read or write. A database still needs …

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