Publication and Printing: Bespoke development of High Traffic Technology Portal

Extended the clients team for a strategic re-branding of the portal. The portal was given a new look and feel, architecture revamped to handle much higher traffic with the existing infrastructure and a lot of features for the end users.

Client Details
Client is an international special-interest media group. The client is listed on the London stock exchange. It has multiple offices in various countries worldwide.

Project Brief
The portal is one of the UK's biggest technology site, which allows the users to do the following:

Search for products via name, make, price or specification.
Compare products on features and their prices.
Read expert and user opinion, and get definitive buying advice.
Talk to owners and set up price alerts etc.

Challenges

Expected user traffic was very high raising the need for a highly scalable platform with optimum use of the current infrastructure.
Content aggregation from various sources.
4 different teams working from different locations.
Integration of various Third party tools.

Solution

Development methodology devised for diverse teams to work independently.
Solution was implemented using the network sharing caching product named memcache.
All modules were developed using the 'hook' mechanism allowing for an open ended platform ensuring addition / removal of modules at runtime.
Use of a secure source repository over the internet minimizing integration and deployment issues.

Technology
Php 4.x, PG-SQL & Memcache