In Episode 37 of Beyond the CMS, host Chris Bryce sits down with Marta Cukierman, Co Founder of StreamX and CEO of Dynamic Solutions, to unravel one of the most complex and misunderstood challenges in global digital operations. The conversation focuses on what it really takes to deliver fast, reliable, and compliant digital experiences inside mainland China.

Marta brings more than a decade of experience leading Adobe Experience Manager engineering teams and delivering enterprise scale implementations. She explains why global brands struggle with performance and reliability when serving Chinese audiences, and why traditional solutions such as CDNs, cloud hosting, or headless CMS platforms often fail once traffic crosses the border into China.

The discussion moves past simple explanations about slow load times and dives into the deeper architectural, regulatory, and infrastructural realities that shape digital performance within China.

Key topics include:
• Why China functions as a separate internet and how the Great Firewall affects speed, consistency, and content rendering
• The purpose of the ICP license, who needs it, and how it complicates global domain and hosting strategy
• The real reasons cross border requests fail, including throttling, packet loss, DNS filtering, and unstable caching
• How enterprise CMS patterns break when backend systems sit outside China
• How StreamX uses event driven content propagation to remove the need for real time fetching across borders
• Why manufacturers, automotive companies, and global B2B organizations are hit hardest by China performance issues
• How precomposed content delivery creates predictable and extremely fast experiences for Chinese users
• How the same event driven architecture supports AI enrichment, vector search, and LLM based workflows
• What it means to build a website that stays available and performant even if the CMS, DAM, or PIM goes down
• How other countries are beginning to mirror China in adopting data sovereignty controls and content isolation models

Marta explains that solving the China challenge is not about temporary fixes. It requires a shift in how global content is distributed and how dependencies are managed. StreamX fills a critical gap by enabling organizations to push content changes in near real time, maintain autonomy between regions, and deliver consistent digital experiences without relying on brittle cross border connections.

Whether you are a CMO preparing to enter the Chinese market, a digital leader dealing with international performance issues, or an enterprise architect evaluating modernization strategies, this episode provides clear and practical insight into a global challenge that most organizations underestimate.