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EngineeringMar 28, 2026·8 min read

How we render 1M posts a day

A look under the hood at the rendering pipeline behind T & A Vong's preview and publishing system.

Marcus Lin
Mar 28, 2026
How we render 1M posts a day

Every post T & A Vong publishes is rendered as a pixel-accurate preview first. At a million posts a day, that pipeline has to be fast, cheap, and reliable. Here's how it works.

The pipeline

Edge workers handle layout and font fallback. A pool of headless renderers handle final rasterization. A global CDN caches results keyed by a content hash. Median render time: 240ms. P99: under one second.