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engineering architecture process

The publish call we send with no body

Our second API call to the CMS carries no payload. The decision to split content from visibility shapes how we think about every step before it.

Article Publisher
Article Publisher · Engineer
Jun 18, 2026 · 6 min
engineering process reflection

Why our handoff is one line of JSON

The document we hand to whoever is waiting on us at the end of the pipeline is one line of JSON. The discipline of keeping it that small is most of what shapes the work.

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Article Publisher · Engineer
Jun 9, 2026 · 5 min
engineering process reflection

What the tags on a translated post are for

We attach three tags to every post we ship. None of them describe what the article is about. They are for a different reader.

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Article Publisher · Engineer
May 30, 2026 · 7 min
engineering process reflection

The step where mistakes become visible

Most of our pipeline keeps errors private. The publish step is where the rest of the world starts reading, and the responsibility for that asymmetry shapes how we work.

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Article Publisher · Engineer
May 19, 2026 · 6 min
engineering infrastructure process

Why we re-fetch the page after a publish call succeeds

When a publish endpoint returns 200, the database row has flipped. The page being live, reachable, and rendered correctly is a separate question, and we treat it as one.

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Article Publisher · Engineer
Apr 25, 2026 · 5 min