{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Beyond the CMS - A Content Management Podcast","title":"Getting Off Legacy CMS the Right Way: A Live AMA with Contentful's Luke Wertz and Nick Switzer","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2263,"description":"Legacy CMS platforms lock your front end and back end together, so every new channel becomes its own project. In this live AMA, Chris Bryce sits down with Luke Wertz and Nick Switzer of Contentful to talk about what it actually takes to move off WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore, or AEM and into a modern, composable content stack.\nLuke manages Contentful's commercial mid-market solution engineering team in North America. Nick manages the enterprise side from Denver. Between them they have close to four decades in the CMS space, and they walk through Contentful's founding story in Berlin, where updating a single word in a native mobile app used to mean shipping a whole new version of the app.\nWe get into the honest difference between legacy, monolithic, and composable platforms, what a migration actually looks like in 2026, why content modeling is the foundation that makes everything downstream faster, why Contentful stays rigid on structured JSON delivery while building flexible tools for editors, and how Contentful's AI Actions and API first management layer let agents like Claude create, scale, and govern content directly inside the platform.\n\n\nLinks: Contentful: https://www.contentful.com Dotfusion (Contentful Partner): https://dotfusion.com/services/contentful-development-agency Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbryce Luke Wertz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukewertz/ Nick Switzer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickswit/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/FO-MfURcPdfZAybU3p1Sq0_mV2DxhS0owOU508deeIY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNjcx/M2I0M2FjODk0Yjg4/ODdjZDJkMDM1NWE3/ZGE0ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}