Case Study: Storyful accelerates breaking news discovery with Gera-IT

Storyful scales real-time news curation with Gera-IT over 2 years

Storyful, a news startup later acquired by News Corp, faced the challenge of how to efficiently discover and verify real news events within the immense volume of social media posts. They needed to separate factual content from fakes and manage these fragments into coherent stories. Gera-IT provided technical resources and development services to help build a solution for this challenge.

Gera-IT developed a highly interactive web application for Storyful using Ruby, AngularJS, and Backbone.js. The solution included a Rails-based API, real-time updates, and the ability to parse large Twitter streams for deep analysis. Over two years, Gera-IT was responsible for daily maintenance of the code and servers, providing reliable, round-the-clock support that the client could depend on.

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