Case Study
The Washington Post Turns Away from Traditional CDNs to Enable Innovation and Speed in Software Delivery and Web Performance
The Washington Post Turns Away from Traditional CDNs to Enable Innovation and Speed in Software Delivery and Web Performance
THE WASHINGTON POST The Challenge Shailesh Prakash, CIO and VP Digital Product Development, arrived at The Washington Post in 2012 with a mandate to modernize the news organization’s technology stack. One of the first matters he tackled was site performance. “The site was very slow, particularly on mobile. Not only did we want to get the CDN portion sorted out, we also wanted to partner with a company who fundamentally believed in speed a