BBC Online’s multi-year transition to the cloud “near completion” confirmed by broadcasters

guest · Nov 5, 2020

BBC Online’s multi-year transition to the cloud “near completion” confirmed by broadcasters
November 5, 2020
https://eminetra.co.uk/bbc-onlines-...r-completion-confirmed-by-broadcasters/81721/

The BBC is nearing completion of a multi-year data center migration project that has upgraded and rebuilt the infrastructure that underpins the BBC Online website to run in the cloud.

The underlying infrastructure of BBC Online was previously hosted in two data centers near London, but more than half of the UK’s population is weekly, with a wide range of recipes, news, podcasts, games, catch-up TV and more. I’m using BBC Online to access my content. Service-It has been delayed for a long time.

“As with technology, when you stop, you go back. Until recently, many BBC websites were written in PHP … when it was created in 2010, it was a wise technical choice, That’s not the case now. “
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These benefits include access to Lambda serverless technology from the huge Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the public cloud. This allows the company to spend less time on hands-on management of virtual machine and container resources.

“About half of the BBC website [now] Renders serverless in AWS Lambda. Managing virtual machines (or containers) is costly. It takes time to keep a virtual machine (or container) secure, reliable, and scalable. Serverless solves that problem primarily for us, “he said.
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BBC: Moving BBC Online to the cloud

This is the first in a series of posts in the coming weeks about how BBC Online is changing, making use of the cloud and more.

This post is the first of several looking at the what, the why, and most importantly the how: the approach we took to creating a new site that’s ready for the future. Delivering quality technology change, quickly and effectively.
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The BBC website is huge. Over half the UK population use it every week. Tens of millions more use it around the world. It has content in 44 different languages. And it offers over 200 different types of page — from programmes and articles, to games and food recipes.
As is the case with tech, if you stand still, you go backward [...]
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