"The London Paper worked with integration specialists Assanka to build the platform, based on open source content management system (CMS) Drupal, over a five and a half week period.
"Saalim Chowdhury, head of digital product said The London Paper's old content management system was inflexible, had poor usability and didn't scale with online traffic. As a result it could take up to 30 seconds to serve web pages.
"Chowdhury said the open source route also suited the London Paper's approach. "