Auto-Translation in Payload CMS with Azure AI Translator: Complete 2026 Implementation Guide

Manual translation in Payload CMS doesn't scale for production applications: it's slow, expensive, and error‑prone once you support multiple documents and locales. This comprehensive guide shows a production-tested automated approach using Azure AI Translator, Payload background jobs, and LRU caching to batch translations, preserve manual edits, and minimize API costs. At u11d, we've implemented this solution across multiple high-traffic Payload CMS applications, processing millions of translat...