MediaWeb DevelopmentCloud & DevOps
TechCrunch
News on Startups, Tech & Innovation
A newsroom platform tuned for breaking-news throughput, live coverage, and event-driven traffic spikes.
Overview
Project overview
Startup news moves in bursts. The platform needed to publish in seconds, hold up under launch-day traffic, and keep live coverage updating without reloads.
We focused on publishing latency, real-time updates, and caching strategy at the edge.
- Industry
- Media
- Timeline
- 10–12 weeks
- Services provided
- Web Development, Cloud & DevOps, Custom Software Development
Business challenge
Traffic spikes around funding and launch announcements were degrading performance exactly when readership peaked.
Solution delivered
- Introduced edge caching with instant invalidation on publish
- Built live-blog components with real-time updates
- Optimised the homepage and section fronts for sub-second loads
- Added structured data for news, authors, and events
Capabilities
Key features
Real-time live coverage
Breaking news publishing pipeline
Section and topic fronts
News structured data
Author and company profiles
Spike-resistant caching
Technology stack
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- CDN Edge Caching
Deliverables
- Newsroom front-end
- Live coverage module
- Caching and invalidation strategy
- Structured data implementation
- Load testing report
Business outcome
Stable sub-second delivery through peak news cycles, with editors publishing to a live audience in seconds rather than minutes.
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