Standard Insurance
Six years maintaining three Drupal platforms including microsite, corporate, and headless with 5 major version upgrades and zero-downtime deployments.
Highlights
We act as the primary engineering force for The Standard Insurance digital properties, providing the deep cross-stack expertise required to support their enterprise infrastructure. From the public-facing corporate site to a fully headless content platform, we ensure every property remains secure, performant, and modern. Our disciplined approach to CI/CD and automated QA allows the partnership to ship features rapidly without compromising the stability insurance customers depend on.
Services
Ongoing Drupal Development
Platform Maintenance & Upgrades
Automated Testing & CI/CD
Headless Architecture
Technical Strategy
The Standard Insurance: Scaling Enterprise Insurance Platforms Through Six Years of Partnership
Hello World serves as the dedicated development partner for The Standard Insurance, a leading provider of financial protection products and services. Working alongside the Point B agency, we manage the technical maintenance and evolution of three distinct Drupal platforms. Our team has successfully executed five major Drupal version upgrades and engineered comprehensive automated testing suites, enabling zero-downtime deployments across their entire digital ecosystem.
The Challenge: Managing Three Platforms with Unique Architectures
The Standard’s digital footprint requires managing three platforms with fundamentally different technical requirements:
- The Microsite Platform (Drupal 11 + Angular): Powers interactive marketing experiences. Originally built on Drupal 7, we have continuously upgraded this system through every major release while maintaining complex Angular integrations.
- The Corporate Website (Drupal 10 + Web Components): The primary standard.com experience. It requires high performance and accessibility compliance for insurance professionals and consumers, utilizing a modern Web Component frontend.
- The Headless Content Platform (Drupal 10): A decoupled instance serving structured content to native iOS and Android applications. This platform demands absolute API stability, as any breaking change affects mobile users instantly.
The technical hurdle is keeping all three environments current across major version cycles while managing three different frontend technologies and deployment cadences.
Our Strategic Technical Approach
1. Disciplined and Methodical Upgrades
Across our six year partnership, we have executed five major Drupal version upgrades. We plan each migration by auditing module readiness and identifying custom code dependencies well in advance. Whether migrating from Drupal 7 to 8 or moving to version 11, we stage every update in isolated environments to ensure compatibility with Angular, Web Components, and headless API consumers before reaching production.
2. Automated Testing for Enterprise Confidence
We built three specialized automated testing suites tailored to each platform’s architecture. For the headless platform, we use API contract testing to validate endpoint stability. For the microsites, we exercise the integration between Angular components and the Drupal API. The corporate site features end to end flows and accessibility checks. These suites run on every pull request, giving the entire project team the confidence that deployments will not introduce regressions.
3. Zero-Downtime Deployment Workflows
For insurance customers, access to policy information and claims tools is mission critical. We engineered CI/CD pipelines that handle database updates, configuration syncs, and cache clearing as part of an automated flow. This ensures that every platform remains fully available to users throughout the deployment process.
Partnership Results
- Five Major Drupal Upgrades: Successfully transitioned platforms from Drupal 7 through Drupal 11 without service disruption.
- Zero-Downtime Standard: Established automated deployment practices that keep all properties live during updates.
- Specialized Testing: Developed three distinct test suites covering API contracts, Angular integration, and end to end user flows.
- Cross-Stack Expertise: Provided consistent delivery across Drupal, Angular, Web Components, and headless APIs.
- Strategic Agency Collaboration: A six year technical partnership with Point B and The Standard built on engineering rigor and consistent delivery.
Modernize Your Enterprise Infrastructure
Hello World provides the technical expertise required to manage complex, multi-platform ecosystems. We eliminate the risks of legacy debt and deployment friction, ensuring your digital properties remain stable and secure.
Ready to scale your platform? Contact Hello World today to discuss a long term strategy for your technical infrastructure.