
Headless vs. Monolithic CMS: The Framework Teams Miss
Most teams choose headless because it sounds modern. Learn the actual decision framework based on content velocity, channel surface, and team composition.
Principal Enterprise Architect
Neil is a principal enterprise architect with 30 years of software engineering experience, specializing in digital experience platforms and web content management systems. He has led some of the largest CMS implementations in the world across pharma, healthcare, banking and financial services, consumer packaged goods, travel, and insurance — working primarily with commercial platforms like Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager, with additional depth in WordPress, Drupal, and Liferay. He writes about the architectural decisions behind enterprise content platforms — CMS selection, replatforming strategy, and the patterns that separate the implementations that compound from the ones that get rebuilt every five years.

Most teams choose headless because it sounds modern. Learn the actual decision framework based on content velocity, channel surface, and team composition.