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Your CMS Is Not Your Web Site

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A content management system is a centralized repository for your content. A Web site is a composite of decentralized fragments that are assembled on the edge, in just-in-time fashion as the content is being delivered to users. If it's not a Web site, what does a CMS do?

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My CMS is my website.
the point the article is making is that website and cms are separate concepts. sure, you can use your cms as the only component that makes up your website. but you could also include other components.

i have not heard about edge-side includes before, but i find it an interesting concept to separate dynamic content which needs to be regenerated every time from content that, while still being automatically generated, can be cached over a longer term.

greetings, eMBee.

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