Technical Architect Matthew Wall, Guardian Unlimited

The Guardian newspaper has embarked on the next stage in its digital content strategy with the launch of its new travel site: The New Guardian.co.uk

From a technical perspective the development team faced several challenges when building the new platform for one of the UK's largest websites. Substantially increased capabilities to organise and relate content require more complex logic. This in turn means maintaining highest levels of performance when creating dynamic pages. The brief also called for a complete separation of page design and content logic, integration with user generated content, and a strategy for the migration of over a million URLs.

In this case study Matt and Erik present the overall solution, which uses practices and technologies such as Domain-Driven Design, the Spring framework, AJAX, AOP, syndication and automated web testing. They also discuss in detail some of more innovative approaches to the challenges.