Archive of stories published by BBC Product & Technology

What’s the point of hiring junior developers? Joseph Wynn, a former Principal Software Engineer in the BBC News website team shared the following thoughts on Twitter recently:

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Toby Cox in BBC Product & Technology

Jul 24, 2019

Goodbye iframes

or: How I learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Shadow Dom

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Matthew Clark in BBC Product & Technology

Oct 29, 2020

Moving BBC Online to the cloud

The story of how the BBC website has been completely rebuilt and moved…

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Johan Jungbeck in BBC Product & Technology

Jul 10, 2017

Signing in the Rain — or Why You Should Let Jenkins Do Android Release Builds

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Graeme Lindsay in BBC Product & Technology

Mar 7, 2022

An organisation is represented by a matrix of circles, representing teams; and strong lines joining them in a grid, representing team interactions. The diagram poses the question “Arrange departments like this?…” and shows the teams being grouped in columns — with strong vertical lines and weak horizontal lines. It then poses the question “… or like this” and shows the teams being grouped in rows with strong horizontal lines and weak vertical lines.

Refactor → Organisation

Changing the organisation — to build the technology right.

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Neil Craig in BBC Product & Technology

Nov 7, 2017

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 and some of the optimisations it makes include:

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James Donohue in BBC Product & Technology

Feb 22, 2021

Screenshot of the BBC Russian home page showing recent news stories in Russian

Looks Good To Me: Making code reviews better for remote-first teams

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Nik Rahmel in BBC Product & Technology

Jan 18, 2019

Lambda Logs in ELK

How to ingest AWS Lambda Log Streams from CloudWatch into an ELK monitoring stack

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Henry Warne in BBC Product & Technology

Nov 12, 2021

Solving the problem with NPM Link and React Hooks

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