Rethinking Blogs

I was looking for a blog post for this class and ran across this article, "Rethinking Blogs at The New York Times."  The New York Times have redesigned their blogs last month, which was really a re-platform.  It meant moving from WordPress-only service to a WordPress as an app inside of the NYTimes platform.

In addition to learning about the re-platform (a behind the scenes look), the article discusses "how blogs used to work." 

In the past, article pages were generated into static HTML files when published. This was good because it was lightning fast, but bad because those files and assets were very difficult to change once they were published.

to how they work now.

The new platform has two main technologies at its center: a new PHP rendering framework and Grunt. Our codebase is a collection of repos that get built into apps via Grunt and deployed by RPMs/Puppet.

It's pretty technical, but some of you might find it interesting to know how large blog sites figure out how to move from old to new blog techniques.