Media companies abandon Drupal for a Jeff Bezos start-up

 https://medium.com/@maximetopolov/media-companies-abandon-drupal-for-a-jeff-bezos-start-up-8ac4310a7c54

We'll see what kind of ecosystem it develops.  It has a narrow but lucrative niche.

SQLite is not a toy database

 https://antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/

I've seen for several years that SQLite is the new database of choice for CMSs. MySQL is proving too heavy for them. 

15 Amazing Laravel open-source Projects

https://www.dunebook.com/5-best-open-source-project-built-using-laravel/
CMSs and admin add-ons. 

Build real-time editing into your site.

https://tinacms.org/
Interesting way to add editability to a site

An Open Source CMS built on top of Shopify's GraphQL API

https://www.openship.org/
Interesting. open-source CMS for shopify

The Future of Websites: Headless CMSs

https://scotch.io/bar-talk/the-future-of-websites-headless-cmss/amp
Is headless the future of CMS? Probably.

The Content Management Framework for Laravel

https://sharp.code16.fr/docs/
A CMS framework for Laravel, kinda like Drupal, but with a clean codebase.

Bear CMS

https://bearcms.com/
The latest no-software CMS for static sites.

Hands on with Publii, a Free Static CMS Generating HTML Sites

https://snipcart.com/blog/publii-static-cms-html
Great walk-through of building an ecommerce site from a static html site.

Carrd Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.

https://carrd.co/
One of the best-looking one-page site builders out there.

It’s pretty cool how Netlify CMS works with any flat file site generator

https://css-tricks.com/its-pretty-cool-how-netlify-cms-works-with-any-flat-file-site-generator/
Meta-flat-file CMS?

Best Blogging Sites & Platform (2018) – Create Your Own Blog

https://codevibrant.com/blog/best-blogging-platform/
All familiar names here, interesting their rankings.

A modern, ultra lightweight and rocket fast Content Management System for SQLite, MSSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

https://redaxscript.com/
Another open-source PHP CMS this time with LOTS of db back-ends instead of flat-files

TYPEMILL MODERN WEB PUBLISHING FOR WRITERS

https://typemill.net/
Yet another open-source flatfile CMS.

In the Shadow of the CMS

https://www.thenation.com/article/content-management-system-essay-wordpress-drupal-internet-feature/
So is the pendulum swinging back to proprietary CMSs?

WonderCMS transfer websites easily

https://www.wondercms.com/
A cms in 5 files?

Content management for today’s makers

https://twill.io/
Yes, another open-source PHP CMS. This one driven by Laravel

Introducing Flextype Modern Open Source Flat-File Content Management System

http://flextype.org/
Yet another opensource flatfile CMS.

BUILDING A ZERO COST WEBSITE WITH APACHE SLING CMS

https://blogs.perficientdigital.com/2018/12/11/building-a-zero-cost-website-with-apache-sling-cms/
And people wonder why Java hasn't taken over the world. Deploying this CMS isn't straightforward to me.

Textpattern: The small content management system that can handle big ideas

https://textpattern.com/
Yet another open-source PHP CMS, actually has about a thousand plugins and extensions.