What is a Content Services Platform

The concept of a Content Services Platform (CSP) is the trend of these past years. It is built as a content repository where you can store your content and reach it through RESTful APIs. It is reactive: another system requests the content as and when it is needed. Since it is headless, there is no user interface (except for a built-in generic admin UI), giving you freedom to build it according to your requirements. Due to its API-first concept, it is easy to integrate with and provides more freedom to developers to choose framework for their projects.

What is a CSP anyway?

loosely connected, often interchangeable components
easy to integrate with
scalable
fast and flexible content delivery
future-proof
few publisher and developer dependencies
simple deployment
good for content centric solutions

Advantages of a CSP compared to a traditional CMS

	Content Services Platform	Traditional CMS
Integration	Easy to integrate due to its API-first approach	All the content and the source code coexist and are bounded tightly, increasing complexity
Flexibility	Optional technology stack (database, framework, programming language)	Site must be written with a specific programming language or with a specific framework
Customizability	Fully customizable	Built-in UI building blocks that you can choose from and customize

Use cases

Build web applications with a technology you are familiar with
Native Mobile Apps
Enrich product information on ecommerce sites
Realize solutions for special business needs
In case fully customized UI is required

Introduction

Basics