Expertise

What we’ve learnt along the way.

Over a thousand successful projects and a full pipeline — we’ve accumulated a wealth of experience and insights on strategy and design, work processes and technology. The blog reveals what we’ve learned:

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February 11, 2024 : Performance from a frontend perspective

Performance can have a crucial impact on the revenue of a website – for many different reasons. Bad performance slows down your page which leaves most of the users unsatisfied. But in order to improve it, we first need to understand that from a frontend perspective p...

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March 12, 2025 : Time for a Drupal Upgrade: A Future-Proof Strategy for Your Website

Technology is constantly evolving—along with our knowledge of how to use it optimally. However, if your website is still running on Drupal 8 or 9, you’re technologically at a dead end—stuck with outdated software, security vulnerabilities, and increasing risks.

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Development Operations : Why you need DevOps in your team

Developers working on client projects are taking care of numerous tasks. When you think the list gets shorter, new things are added at the bottom. What is there to do in order to provide an infrastructure that lets them tackle their issues? There is an administrative aspe...

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February 8, 2024 : From design to code

Since 2020, we at Factorial do not only offer web development, but also conception and design for all kinds of web projects. And while in the past designing and developing websites has usually been a quite separate process, there are nowadays powerful tools for cooperation bet...

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January 12, 2023 : Award for being a family friendly company

We at Factorial have been awarded with the ‘Hamburger Familiensiegel’ for being a family friendly company. The award was given by the Hamburg Senate, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts.

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November 16, 2022 : Splash Award for best Drupal project

After 2 years of pandemic restrictions, the latest edition of the Splash Awards Germany and Austria took place at our office. Not only were we able to host the event and invite all participants to Hamburg, we also won an Award in the category education for our project dpa-Fact...

Splash Awards 2022 ceremony, where Factorial won for best Drupal project with dpa Factify e-learning.

Sustainable software : Sustainable backend web development

Anyone who operates a web presence today should think about ideas to run it in a more sustainable way. But what measures are there in the backend development?

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