Media, Publishing & Streaming// topic
CMS and publishing platform engineering
In short
How the publishing platform itself is built, migrated and kept standing: headless and hybrid architecture, multi-brand content models, rendering and caching under traffic spikes, and migrations that do not lose the archive or the URLs.
5 pages
definitions
- News sitemaps: the two-day window, and what the archive stays out ofA news sitemap is a rolling window, not an index. At publisher scale the failure is inclusion — archives, republished timestamps and paginated lists leaking into a file meant for two days of news.definition8 min
- Surrogate keys: purging one story without flushing the front pageOne story lives on six surfaces. The keys attached to those responses at render time decide whether a correction reaches all six, or whether somebody asks for a full flush at the worst moment.definition8 min
diagnostics
- Scheduled stories that go live late, or twiceLate and duplicate publishing are the same defect: a scheduler nobody verifies and a publish command with no key. Four timestamps tell you which half you are looking at.diagnostic10 min
- Search traffic fell after the replatform: working back through the mapPost-migration traffic loss is a URL-class problem, not a rankings problem. Author pages, tag archives, pagination and old AMP paths are the classes nobody maps, and they are where the traffic went.diagnostic9 min
- Some readers still see the old version of a corrected storyA correction that is right for you and wrong for a colleague is held by exactly one layer. Ten minutes of evidence tells you which, and stops the reflex to flush everything.diagnostic10 min
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