High-Traffic Digital Newsroom
Building an incredibly resilient, real-time publishing platform handling millions of daily readers with zero latency.
The Challenge
Breaking news broke the servers.
During major global events, traffic spikes would routinely take the publication offline. Their editorial workflow was also hindered by a clunky WordPress setup that took 10 minutes to publish a single article.
- Database servers crashing under read-heavy loads.
- Publishing delays costing them breaking news exclusivity.
- Poor SEO scores due to heavy client-side rendering.
The Approach
Static generation at the edge.
We replaced WordPress with Sanity CMS for real-time collaboration. We used Next.js Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) to build pages statically at request time, pushing the HTML directly to Cloudflare's edge nodes.
- Sanity Studio custom editorial workflows.
- Next.js ISR for infinite scalability without build times.
- Cloudflare Workers for instant cache invalidation.
The Solution
Unbreakable and lightning fast.
The platform now handles election-night traffic spikes without breaking a sweat. Editors can publish content instantly with AI-assisted tagging, and global readers experience sub-second load times regardless of their geographic location.
- 100% Cache hit ratio on articles.
- Real-time live blogging capabilities.
- Perfect Core Web Vitals across all devices.