Notícias Ao Minuto
Notícias ao Minuto (noticiasaominuto.com) — major Portuguese digital-native news outlet; engineering support for performance, reliability, and day-to-day delivery on a Laravel/Vue/MySQL stack at INBOX Agency.
Overview
- Maintained and improved a high-traffic news site serving millions of daily visitors.
- Tuned Laravel, Vue.js, Redis, and caching so the stack stayed fast under breaking-news load.
Challenge
Breaking news and viral traffic spikes demand low latency and stable uptime; regressions in caching or queries could cascade across millions of readers.
Approach
Focused on observability, cache strategy, and safe deploy practices alongside feature work — prioritizing changes that reduced risk during peak traffic.
Solution
Improved performance and reliability through Laravel/Vue maintenance, Redis-backed caching, API and database tuning, and careful rollout of changes on a high-traffic property.
Results
- Stable platform for continuous delivery of news at scale.
- Stack tuned for fast response times and predictable behaviour under load.
Business impact
- Readers and editors get a reliable experience when minutes matter.
- Lower operational risk during traffic peaks and campaign traffic.
Scale
One of Portugal’s most visited news portals; very high daily sessions and mobile readership.
Lessons
- On news sites, caching and query discipline are as important as new features.
- Small, measured changes beat big-bang changes on always-on production.
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