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by ezequiel-garzon 3379 days ago
A few days ago Smashing Magazine published this post on their transition: https://next.smashingmagazine.com/2017/03/a-little-surprise-...

Edit: The article points out that this is not just about switching to a CDN, but also about streamlining their publishing process:

In the past, we were using WordPress as a CMS, our job board was running on Ruby, and at one point we switched to Shopify from Magento for our online shop. Not only was maintenance of four separate platforms incredibly complicated, but designing a consistent, smashing experience the way we envisioned it proved to be nearly impossible due to technical restrictions or requirements imposed by these platforms.