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Choosing the Right Publishing Architecture

Part two: separating content, presentation, membership and delivery into understandable boundaries.

Choosing the Right Publishing Architecture
SeriesThe Independent Publishing Stack
  1. The Case for Owning Your Publishing Infrastructure
  2. Choosing the Right Publishing Architecture
  3. Identity, Membership and the Reader Relationship
  4. Payments Are Only the Beginning
  5. Newsletters as Distribution Infrastructure
  6. Search, Archives and the Value of Old Work
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Architecture matters because content systems accumulate assumptions. A clear boundary between content, presentation, membership and integrations makes change cheaper later.

The operating principle

A theme should remain replaceable. A payment provider should remain replaceable. The publication's archive and reader relationship should not depend on either one.

content → presentation
members → access
payments → entitlement
newsletter → distribution
archive → discovery

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