Newstag

Overview

Newstag's mission is to create the worlds most relevant and sustainable news source. Their innovative business model allows them to serve content from the finest news organisations in the world, and at the same time to support causes and research related to the UN´s 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Newstag's award winning mobile-first application enables users to create and watch their own personalized video channels consisting of news and causes they find relevant.

Since we started working together we have helped them design, develop and maintain some of their most critical systems. We have completely rebuilt their videos storage and retrieval services to improve performance, reliability and search accuracy. Implemented new user authentication flows through social network accounts from Facebook and Google. We have created new CMS(content management system) which enables its editors to process more news and manage other related content.

Technologies

Java, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, React, JavaScript, AngularJS, AWS