Dedicated team for a WordPress CMS powering multiple news websites
Media company · Miami, Florida · 6-person team · 6-year engagement (from 2020)
The Clients
- Industry:
- Media
- Location:
- Miami, Florida
- Delivery model:
- Dedicated team
- Duration:
- 6 years (from 2020)
- Team size:
- 6
- Support areas:
- CMS migrations · Website development · DevOps engineering · QA engineering
- Platform context:
- Multiple high-traffic news websites across modern and legacy systems
The challenge
This wasn’t a single-site build. It was ongoing delivery across multiple high-traffic news websites.
Multi-platform complexity
Maintaining multiple high-traffic news websites across modern and legacy systemsScalability + performance pressure
Ensuring stability, performance, and scalability for platforms serving tens of millions of monthly usersBug mitigation + technical debt
Fixing issues and reducing debt while still delivering new featuresConsistent delivery at scale
Keeping engineering sprints on time and in scope across many sitesSEO at scale
Improving search performance across multiple properties
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What the client needed
They needed reliable delivery support across the core engineering functions—without slowing day-to-day operations.
CMS migrations
Website development
DevOps engineering
QA engineering
What Sunbytes Delivered
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Bug mitigation
to improve reliability -
SEO improvements
to support search performance -
WordPress-based CMS
feature development -
Maintaining websites on older systems while waiting for migration to common platforms
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Completing engineering sprints
on time and in scope -
Expanding common platforms
to support scale
Why teams choose Sunbytes
A Netherlands-led delivery partner for stable dedicated teams, clear ownership, and roadmap capacity that can scale without resetting context.
Roadmap-first team design
Your team is shaped around roadmap goals, product context, skill gaps, and delivery risks—so capacity matches the work, not a generic squad template.
Product ownership stays with you
You keep backlog, priorities, acceptance, and product decisions; Sunbytes supports execution rhythm, quality, continuity, and team performance.
Stable team context
Dedicated teams retain product knowledge across releases, reducing repeated onboarding, handoff loss, and context rebuilds between roadmap phases.
Governance that fits your workflow
Sprint planning, review cadence, DORA metrics, risk tracking, and monthly service reviews are adapted to your delivery model—not forced into one process.
Continuity built into the model
Structured handover, documentation, replacement support, and performance check-ins protect delivery when team composition needs to change.
Secure cross-border delivery
ISO 27001-certified operations, GDPR-aware processes, access governance, and Vietnam delivery capacity help your team scale with stronger control.
What the team covered
The engagement combined delivery support and ongoing improvements across product, infrastructure, and quality.
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WordPress-based CMS feature development
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Bug mitigation
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SEO improvements / search ranking optimization
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DevOps engineering support
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QA engineering support
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CMS migration support
Outcomes
The work delivered practical improvements across reliability, search performance, and delivery speed.
Stability
Better stability on notoriously unreliable sites
Improved reliability across multiple news websites
SEO
An increase in search rankings
SEO improvements supported stronger search performance at scale.
Delivery efficiency
More efficient product development
Product development was completed at a more efficient rate.
In their words
“We are impressed with the skill set the Sunbytes engineers have. As we have onboarded more Sunbytes staff, they get brought up to speed at an incredibly fast rate and hit the ground running, eager to learn more. Their engineers also have a wide breadth of knowledge. Engineers are experts in multiple areas of web development, and that provides us with a well-rounded knowledge base to pull from.”
Aaron Segal
Product Manager
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