Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2017
Posts (8)
Enabling Secure HTTP for BBC Online - update
We’ve made some really good progress and now BBC products can roll out HTTPS.
Enabling Secure HTTP for BBC Online - audio and video
Once BBC web pages could be served over HTTPS, the next step was to do the same for our audio and video distribution.
Empowerment and disruption - our strategy and architecture teams discuss technology transformation
Highlights from a conference bringing together the BBC’s community of technical strategists and architectural practitioners.
AWS re:Invent: creating iPlayer architecture and nanoservices architecture
Two of the BBC’s senior architects discuss the creation of the iPlayer architecture and how the BBC’s website and app handle millions of users.
HTTP/2 is easy, just turn it on…
HTTP/2 (h2), the successor to HTTP/1.x (h1), started to gain significant mainstream support with service providers such as CDNs during 2016. A major design goal of h2 is improved performance over h1.
How we grow junior developers at the BBC
The BBC’s Software Engineering Graduate Scheme is a two-year scheme for anyone who has a Computer Science related degree. It's a great way to enter the BBC as a junior-level Software Engineer with the added bonus of being able to move teams every six months with opportunities to develop skills.
Making BBC iPlayer the best place to watch BBC TV
Head of BBC iPlayer, Dan Taylor-Watt, talks through some of the latest developments that ensure users get the best possible experience on the 10,000+ different devices iPlayer is now available on.
How we deliver BBC pages to the internet
An overview of the way in which the BBC serves the majority of its web pages to the public.
