--- title: "DocuSign’s Migration from Drupal to Netlify" description: "Learn why the DocuSign team migrated off of a Drupal monolith and onto a Jamstack architecture with Netlify and Next.js at the center, and how this improved the development workflow." source: "https://www.netlify.com/blog/docusign-drupal-migration/" last_updated: "2026-07-11T05:44:17.000Z" --- In order to improve their time to market and offer the team a better developer experience, the DocuSign development team decided to re-architect their marketing site, and ultimately migrate from Drupal to a modern stack. The goal, as DocuSign team lead Grant Glidewell put it, was to “get the infrastructure out of the way,” and empower their development team to ship better web experiences, faster. Their new headless approach uses a mix of **homegrown APIs, Contentful, Next.js, and Netlify.** ## Goals and Requirements for DocuSign’s Jamstack Migration As a global company, DocuSign operates in many markets. Their goal for the re-architecture project was to migrate the homepage, business-critical product pages, and some brand experience pages over to Netlify across all markets. More specifically, they wanted to: ### Navigate away from Drupal to improve Developer Experience In order to hire and retain development talent, the team sought to modernize the development workflow, and make working on DocuSign.com an excellent experience for developers. They also wanted CI/CD tools that aren’t available on a monolith. ### Use Tools that Meet DocuSign’s Security and Performance Needs DocuSign’s security process requires thorough vendor evaluation before handing over the keys to DNS and SSL, so the team needed to use trusted, vetted tools. They also had a requirement of 99.99% uptime, and fast page load speeds, which Netlify delivers with [High Performance Edge](https://www.netlify.com/products/edge/). > “Keep it simple, and get out of the way of your developers. Let them do what they do best.” – Grant Glidewell, Senior Software Engineer, DocuSign ## Empowering Developers with Netlify’s Workflow 25% of visitors to the homepage now receive the experience built and delivered with Netlify. As they continue to A/B test and iterate, the plan is to leave Drupal behind and build all marketing sites–and eventually eCommerce pages–with a headless approach. What will those sites look like, and what tools will the team use to build them? With Netlify at the foundation of their Jamstack architecture, the possibilities are endless. By choosing Netlify, DocuSign developers can now use best-of-breed tools across the ecosystem to build what the business needs, with the workflows they love. As Grant puts it: > “\[DocuSign developers\] have the flexibility within \[DocuSign’s\] stack and all of Netlify to build with whatever you want. We can put it out on the Internet and feel confident in that.” – Grant Glidewell, Senior Software Engineer, DocuSign To learn more about DocuSign’s migration project, watch the full video of the conversation at a recent customer event with Netlify customers DocuSign and Tinder. ### Share - [X (fka Twitter)](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=DocuSign Empowers Dev Teams with Netlify and Next.js&url=https://www.netlify.com/blog/docusign-drupal-migration/) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netlify.com%2Fblog%2Fdocusign-drupal-migration%2F) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.netlify.com/blog/docusign-drupal-migration/) - [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=DocuSign Empowers Dev Teams with Netlify and Next.js+https://www.netlify.com/blog/docusign-drupal-migration/) * * * ### Tags - [Workflow](/blog/tags/workflow/) - [Case Studies](/blog/tags/case-Studies/) - [drupal](/blog/tags/drupal/) - [migrating to the modern web](/blog/tags/migrating-to-the-modern-web/) - [monolith](/blog/tags/monolith/) - [Contentful](/blog/tags/contentful/) - [Next.js](/blog/tags/next.js/) ## Keep reading ![](/_astro/fda2b33484e731505db67bb809c8aaaf37a41859-2400x1260_Z27EgKV.webp) Case Studies September 13, 2024 [ ### How Green Custard builds a super-fast, scalable website with Netlify, Gatsby.js, and Sanity ](/blog/green-custard-builds-a-super-fast-scalable-website-with-netlify) - ![Profile picture of Jakub Dakowicz](/_astro/79a3f831f1c6ded3655583adc4592621b647af50-130x130_1L1nHQ.webp) Jakub Dakowicz ![](/_astro/e1003233909ff20c4613caad999eac3853f8303c-2400x1350_c9o3i.webp) Case Studies August 15, 2024 [ ### How RenderATL automates conference chores with custom APIs on Netlify ](/blog/how-renderatl-automates-conference-chores-with-custom-apis-on-netlify) - ![Profile picture of Steven Carr](/_astro/8d77653fa27e1f2007d56d0867b4f9db5a2519da-3848x3376_2o2KLI.webp) Steven Carr ## Recent posts News & Announcements June 25, 2026 [ ### Netlify Functions, designed for Agent Experience ](/blog/netlify-functions-designed-for-agent-experience) - ![Profile picture of Eduardo Bouças](/_astro/52958f21e8450baf6d8e60302341a984e220c0cd-512x512_13VDlu.webp) Eduardo Bouças News & Announcements June 24, 2026 [ ### How we measure Netlify’s Agent Experience ](/blog/how-we-measure-netlify-agent-experience) - ![Profile picture of Sean Roberts](/_astro/bbf2243f8171dbddd80ab2103622106cef84d125-512x512_Z1d2LKE.webp) Sean Roberts Guides & Tutorials May 15, 2026 [ ### How to build a real-time AI chatbot in minutes with Netlify Agent Runners (no backend) ](/blog/how-to-build-a-real-time-ai-chatbot-in-minutes-with-netlify-agent-runners-no-backend) - ![Profile picture of Nahrin Jalal](/_astro/f0e7c8f227a03fe58340c99ef5439d5a896c0733-272x272_Z23kDpD.webp) Nahrin Jalal ![](/_astro/3f255b372fa958df35802666ee33b4609b2d71bd-1200x1586_1VtE2D.webp) ### How do the best dev and marketing teams work together? 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