Vox Media Product Blog

From the early days Vox and sites like Polygon and TheVerge were pretty open and proud about their custom CMS and publishing platform. It is pretty surprising to see them abandon Chorus. Also interesting that they think Coral, a tolerable-at-best comments platform, is appealing for other customers. A glimpse at the recent history of Chorus as a stand-alone product: https://product.voxmedia.com/chorus

There was a great blog post, explaining how the team did it. https://product.voxmedia.com/2013/11/25/5426880/polygon-feature-design…

Quip (a better spreadsheet) or Django web framework (its ORM and built-in admin can do wonders) are worth mentioning. Another example that comes to mind is how Vox uses Google Sheets for content & config: https://product.voxmedia.com/2014/7/29/5863004/take-a-peek-at-the-code…

I second the thumbs-up to Middleman...to me, it hits the right sweet spot between hack-it-yourself-static-site and building out a Sinatra/Padrino/Rails, or even a WordPress site. Having Sass and templating work right out of the box is, for many of my projects, just about all I need. Then I add a plugin to deploy to S3 and I'm good to go. But one of Middleman's best features is the ability to supply JSON (or YAML) files and automatically generate routes and pages from the data. I find it to be a nice way to prototype data-heavy sites that may end up requiring a full-blown Rails setup. If all you're doing is blogging, then Jekyll might be all you need (especially since it, I think, had native Sass support in its latest version)...but for anything more complicated, or even simpler (i.e. a few static pages and not a blog), Middleman hits that niche very sweetly. I came across it when reading an article by a front-end shop about how they use it as a sort-of backend to their client-side-heavy apps...I haven't used it for that purpose yet, but, given how easy it is to setup the build process via Sprockets, I have no doubt it could serve as a decent static backbone for such an app. Vox Media uses Middleman for most of their features: http://product.voxmedia.com/2014/7/29/5863004/take-a-peek-at-the-code-…

This? https://www.polygon.com/a/xbox-one-review Background: https://product.voxmedia.com/2013/11/25/5426880/polygon-feature-design…

My first impulse as well. As the article states, though, they're aware of and working on it[0]. [0] http://product.voxmedia.com/2015/5/6/8561867/declaring-performance-ban…

We use S3 behind 1 second max-age cloudfront to serve The Verge liveblog. It's been nothing but rock solid. We essentially create a static site and push up JSON blobs. See here: http://product.voxmedia.com/post/25113965826/introducing-syllabus-vox-…

Washington DC, New York City, Austin or remote. Vox Media is a media/technology startup. We run a consumer technology news site (http://theverge.com/), a video game news site (http://polygon.com/), and a network of over 300 sports news sites & communities (http://sbnation.com/). You can read about some of the interesting challenges we run into on our product team blog: http://product.voxmedia.com/ We're hiring Ruby developers and operations engineers, among other roles: http://jobs.voxmedia.com/ Our investors include Accel Partners, Allen & Company, Comcast Interactive Capital, and Khosla Ventures. We get around 35 million unique visitors every month.

SEEKING WORK Location: Washington DC and remote I'm a software engineer specializing in building stable, scalable consumer-facing websites and refactoring large codebases. Looking for consulting or contract work, working solo or with a team. Some previous projects: - Built a comprehensive CI ecosystem for a 30+ app polygot environment using Jenkins, Docker and Github. Reduced test suite run time in their monolith from 25 minutes to 10. - Built a live blog for The Verge that handles 1.2 million uniques during iPhone events https://product.voxmedia.com/2012/6/15/5426782/introducing-syllabus-vo… - Refactored the real time auction draft system for a fantasy sports company to increase stability and support four times as many users without additional hardware. Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Golang, Python/Django, AWS, Redis, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Chef, StatsD, Varnish, ElasticSearch, WebPageTest Resume: https://clifff.com/resume.pdf Github: https://github.com/clifff [email protected]

Vox Media -- Washington DC, New York, or Remote -- http://www.voxmedia.com Do you care about the future of journalism? Vox Media is a technology-driven media company. Our publications include Vox, The Verge, Polygon, Eater, Racked, Curbed, and SB Nation. We're working hard to solve the problem of scaling and sustaining high-value journalism & storytelling. We're hiring engineers to hack on Chorus, our publishing platform (built on Ruby & Rails, among other tech): * Full-Stack Engineer - http://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/11329?gh_jid=11329 * Editorial Tools Full-Stack Engineer - http://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/42281?gh_jid=42281 * Performance Engineer - http://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/37584?gh_jid=37584 * Security Engineer - http://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/42417?gh_jid=42417 We have several non-engineering positions open, as well, including: * Product Manager - http://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/42506?gh_jid=42506 * QA Tester - http://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/42513?gh_jid=42513 More details and open positions here: http://www.voxmedia.com/careers And read more about the Vox Media product team on our blog: http://product.voxmedia.com