Two weeks ago, I stood on a stage in Athens, in front of the Drupal DevDays audience, and walked through 37 years in tech with a long stop at five years of ECA . That was the keynote. This series is something else: a much closer look at the last ten months, because that's when everything started moving faster than I could comfortably keep up with.

It started, as so many things in Drupal seem to, with a conversation with Dries Buytaert .

Back in June and July 2025, well before DrupalCon Vienna, Dries and I were talking about where ECA fits into Drupal CMS . He'd been watching the project for a while. He liked what he saw. And then he asked the kind of question that sounds simple but won't leave you alone afterwards:

We all know that ECA ships with Drupal CMS, but honestly, what does it do for the user?

Not "what features does it have?" Not "how is it built?" But: what does it do for the user?

I didn't have a good answer.

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What followed wasn't harsh, but it was honest.…