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BBCCompany

UK public broadcaster; BBC Product & Technology blog covers BBC Online engineering.

3 things

ServerlessOther

recommended

Using serverless takes away the need to spend time engineering the fundamentals of your platform, instead allowing you to focus on the value you deliver to your customers.

A year of BBC Online on its shared serverless platform WebCore

medium.com ↗·2022-03-29Wrong?

ReactSoftware

uses

Around 150ms is spent running React to render the content to HTML, the rest is spent fetching or processing data.

How BBC Online renders pages on its serverless platform

medium.com ↗·2022-03-29Wrong?

RedisSoftware

uses

using serverless Redis that can scale to meet the demands of our workload

Serverless Redis in the BBC Online WebCore platform

medium.com ↗·2022-03-29Wrong?

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The small bar beside a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The bar shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Full and green is recent. It drains, and turns amber and then grey, as the post gets older.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The bar is empty after about:

A striped bar means the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no bar.