Overview
We designed and built a digital publishing infrastructure for an organization that needed to manage, transform, and distribute content across multiple formats and channels. The platform supports real-time collaborative editing, automated format conversion, and global content delivery.
Technical Challenges
The primary challenge was building a system that could handle the full content lifecycle — from collaborative authoring through format transformation to global distribution — while maintaining content consistency and low latency.
Content Pipeline
The publishing pipeline handles multiple content formats and output channels:
- Authoring — Real-time collaborative editor with conflict resolution
- Transformation — Automated conversion between formats (web, PDF, ePub, API)
- Review — Workflow engine for editorial review and approval
- Distribution — Multi-region CDN with cache invalidation
Infrastructure Design
The infrastructure layer was designed for global reach and operational simplicity:
- Multi-region deployment with automatic failover
- Edge caching with intelligent cache invalidation
- Asset optimization pipeline (image compression, responsive variants)
- Monitoring and alerting across the full content delivery path
Results
- Scale: 2M+ content items under management
- Latency: P95 content delivery under 120ms globally
- Availability: 99.99% uptime for content delivery
- Throughput: 500+ content updates per hour during peak editorial periods