FlexPress
Dedicated team supporting the growth of a multi-site publishing platform
Software Development I United States I 9-person team I 4-year engagement (From 2020)
The Clients
- Industry:
- Software Development
- Location:
- United States
- Delivery model:
- Staff augmentation + Dedicated team
- Duration:
- 4 years (from 2018)
- Support areas:
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Scale development, content delivery, and traffic performance - Platform context:
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Tools for publishers, accessed via an intuitive user interface, built on top of a rock-solid codebase, which restores digital data ownership and transparency back to publishers.
The challenge
Flexpress needed external engineering support to scale its growing platform.
• Integrating multiple websites with different layouts and code languages into one platform
• Supporting diverse content requests from creators through flexible content blocks
• Managing high site demand and advertising campaign load
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What the client needed
A scalable platform across multiple websites
Bring websites with different technologies and structures into a more consistent platform setup.
More flexible content capabilities
Support diverse publishing needs with content structures that could adapt as requirements evolved.
Reliable performance at high traffic volumes
Maintain stability and performance while supporting heavy traffic and campaign-driven demand.
Additional engineering capacity
Extend the internal team with development capability to support continued platform growth.
What Sunbytes Delivered
Sunbytes provided a staff augmentation and dedicated team engagement covering:
Platform consolidation & migration
Supported the migration of multiple websites into a more unified core platform.Scalable feature development
Delivered new functionality across existing and newly onboarded websites as the platform expanded.Data & campaign capabilities
Improved platform capabilities for data-driven experiences and campaign execution.Performance & infrastructure improvements
Strengthened the technical foundation to support reliability and high-traffic workloads.
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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 included project managers and real-time collaboration enabled by shared time zone availability:
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Migration
Moving numerous sites into the
core platform -
Feature delivery
Introducing hundreds of new features for migrating and new sites
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Migration tool development
Building a reusable tool
for complex site migrations
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Analytics support
Adding features for easier website data evaluation
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Email marketing
Managing a database of over 2 million users and setting up campaigns
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Content delivery
Implementing a headless CMS with modern frontends
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Performance and reliability
Integrating a CDN with failover setup to reduce downtime
Outcomes
The collaboration resulted in:
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Portfolio of websites
Successful growth from single-site support to a portfolio of websites
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System scalability
Improved system reliability and scalability for high-traffic workloads
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Scaling teams
Expanded team capability to accelerate development and operations
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Reduced workload
Reduced client workload through Sunbytes-managed recruitment
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Reduced friction
Lower operational friction through real-time communication and ongoing training
In their words
“SunBytes has been a critical part of development for Flexpress as we have grown from managing a single site to a wide portfolio of them. They are pragmatic, a pleasure to work with, and the communication with both their engineers and their management has made them feel like direct members of our own team.”
Justin Demaris
CTO, FlexPress
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