Publishing and CMS platforms
Editors publish fast, and the page that results is light.
News and media
Publishing platforms that hold when the story breaks
Content systems and delivery layers for newsrooms whose traffic arrives in minutes. We have shipped a platform for 30,000+ concurrent users in one month.
2.5 sLargest Contentful Paint target at the 75th percentile
200 msInteraction to Next Paint target
0.1Cumulative Layout Shift target
30,000+Concurrent users in our nearest build
What this is
A news site is judged on its worst minute
Readers arrive in a burst after the push alert, on a phone, and leave if the page jumps or stalls. The platform has to take the spike and still pass the speed measures Google reports.
Where we have proof
a platform that supported 30,000+ concurrent users, built on microservices and AWS Kinesis
Where we have not yet
We have no published news case. We say so on the first call and show the closest work.
Services
What we build for publishers
High-traffic delivery
Microservices and caching built for the spike after the alert.
Performance engineering
Pages tuned against Core Web Vitals on real devices.
Real-time event streaming
Live blogs, tickers and updates pushed without polling.
Audience analytics
Reading and subscription data brought to one place.
Subscription and paywall integration
Payments, access and identity joined to the content.
Measures
What Core Web Vitals ask of a page
These come from web.dev, the web developer guidance Google publishes.
Largest Contentful Paint within 2.5 secondsThe page should load its main content within 2.5 seconds. Source: web.dev, Core Web Vitals.
Interaction to Next Paint under 200 millisecondsThe page should respond to taps and clicks within 200 milliseconds. Source: web.dev, Core Web Vitals.
Cumulative Layout Shift under 0.1Content should not jump while the page loads. Source: web.dev, Core Web Vitals.
Measured at the 75th percentileA site meets each target when at least 75 percent of page visits do. Source: web.dev, Core Web Vitals.
Case study
The nearest build we can show you
Fintech, Hong Kong
Cryptocurrency marketing platform
Different sector, same load. A platform connecting thousands of users had to support 30,000+ concurrent users, with one month for the first phase. We delivered on microservices and AWS Kinesis, with .NET and Angular.
30,000+Concurrent users supported
Who we build for
The teams who call us
Digital publishers
Teams whose revenue depends on the spike being served.
Regional and local news groups
Many titles on one platform with a small engineering team.
Broadcasters with a web presence
Live coverage that brings the audience at once.
Media start-ups
Founders who need a platform that survives its first big story.
Related reading: social networking software, politics software and ecommerce software.
FAQs
What buyers ask first
Do you have a news case?
Not yet published. We say so on the first call and show the closest work, which is a high-concurrency platform delivered in one month.
Can you work with our existing CMS?
Usually. We build the delivery and performance layers around it, and replace the CMS only if it is the bottleneck.
Do you tune for Core Web Vitals?
Yes. We measure on real devices against the targets and report the result by page type.
Who owns the code and the cloud accounts?
You do, from the first commit. Repositories and cloud accounts stay in your name.
Send us your worst traffic day
Thirty minutes with the engineers on the spike, what broke and what the page costs the reader.