How to Build a Scalable, Multi-Language Digital Platform for a Top Bioscience Company?

Technology. Twist requested Drupal as their content management system. Their R&D team did a deep dive and concluded that Drupal would be the best solution for scalability, performance, compliance, and back-end management.

Scalability and Freedom. Drupal offers a set of tools that can be combined in different ways according to the use case—rather than being forced to conform to a predefined architecture. Because of this feature, we were free to implement each of Twist’s requirements in ways that reflected their precise needs. The data model level (node, custom entities, paragraph, taxonomies, etc.), the different rendering options (Twig, REST API), and various front-end frameworks (Angular, React, Vue, etc.) helped us fulfill the scalability requirements needed for this project.

Out-of-the-Box Solutions. Drupal offers beautifully designed solutions that address our main challenges in this project. The multi-site and multi-language translation architectures and the flexible roles and permissions system were ideal for helping us deliver an elegant solution with minimum risk.

Designed for Performance. Drupal gives developers incredible control over what goes in, making it easier to create lightweight applications as its architecture minimizes the number of dependencies.

As secure as it gets. Drupal is known as one of the world’s most secure CMSs, providing secure authentication, role-based access control and configurable permissions, advanced validation mechanisms, a Symfony-based core engine, a secure template engine (Twig), and more.

On the front end, Twist’s website uses a semi-decoupled architecture. Some site sections are generated by a template engine (Twig), and others use VueJS with REST API. The website also uses a web components-based design system that works as a stand-alone library, integrating with the main site alongside Twist’s other digital assets.