Enterprise Content Platform

A custom CMS for a university doing 2M+ daily reads. Publishing went from two days to fifteen minutes. Editors don't need an engineer to push a post any more.

Built at: TechnicalBind
Scale: 2M+ daily reads.
Category: Platforms

To Publish: 15 min
Load Time: <50ms

Context

Every new article meant a code change and a deploy. Editors waited days. Engineers did weekend pushes.

Challenge

Hand editors a self-service workflow without putting the public site at risk.

Non-negotiables

Multi-language support
Fast page loads

Calls I made

01
Editor and reader split
Decoupled the editor from the public site. Editor downtime never reaches visitors.
02
Pre-rendered pages in memory
Published pages are pre-rendered and served from memory, so traffic spikes are absorbed cleanly.

Trade-offs accepted

Optimised for readers first. The editor is functional rather than visual, while the public site is fast.
Accepted that search takes a few minutes to update after publishing.

Outcome

Editors publish on their own now. Page loads came in under 50ms. And engineering is out of the publishing loop entirely.

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