High-traffic web publishing platform
The web/mobile publishing platform I helped build over four years at Cox Media Group served tens of millions of pages per day, and was a growing source of revenue for this $1.5B national media company.
The platform was used by all of CMG’s newspaper, radio, and TV properties — about 100 sites in markets all across the United States.
Medley was approximately 250,000 lines of Python. I worked on nearly all areas of the application.
It was built on Ellington CMS, the pre-eminent Django-based system for news media at the time.
I maintained our system’s integration with Google DFP ad services. I maintained a fork of a Python Google DFP library in order to ensure compatibility with the Python version we ran in production.
(Footnote: I was born and raised in New England, but this job added the word “y’all” — a very useful form of address that standard English lacks — to my active vocabulary.)
Technology Stack
- Django
- Postgres
- Solr
- Jenkins
- Akamai