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I surveyed the whole content-management market — open-source monoliths, headless SaaS, enterprise DXPs, site builders — to see where the field actually stands in 2026. The short version: the content layer is being bought, the governance thesis became law, and "open source" needs an audit.
If a federal Drupal shop were going to leave Drupal, what's actually out there? A comparative look at the modern CMS field through the one filter consumer tech ignores, with FedRAMP Marketplace receipts as of July 2026.
A keynote is a company's aspiration; a job posting is its budget. Reading Acquia and Pantheon's hiring side by side reveals where value is moving in content platforms — out of generating and rendering pages, into governance and multi-channel distribution.
Two résumés are open on my screen and they disagree about who I am — a Drupal specialist or a generalist engineer. Standing on the seam between two careers, and the four values that show up no matter which one I'm pitching.
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