Watford FC

A complete custom build CMS for a Premier League club.

This work was done as part of my employment at Scout Digital

2020

www.watfordfc.com

Responsibilities

Translating initial requirements into technical specifications
Designing database schema
Choosing appropriate stack
Helping to select a viable host for application
Coding application to initial specification in areas such as users, games, teams, statistical information and third party API integrations
Assisting in maintenance and responding to bug reports

Functionality

Fully custom CMS with powerful article and page builder
3rd party feed and API integrations for statistical data
On-demand streaming platform for live matches
Optimised for performance and able to handle sudden peaks of traffic
User account and registration system

Technologies

PHP 7 + Laravel
Elasticsearch
Vue.js
Sass
PHPUnit + CircleCI
Redis
MySQL
AWS S3 + SES
Platform.sh + Fastly CDN
TailwindCSS

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