Top stories published by BBC Product & Technology in 2017

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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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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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 Ruston in BBC Product & Technology

Jun 15, 2017

Phased Releases in iTunes Connect

A nice new feature announced at WWDC this year was phased releases. This is the new ability to be…

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Matthew Clark in BBC Product & Technology

Nov 28, 2017

Powering BBC Online with nanoservices

A pseudo-serverless approach to making flexible APIs and websites

The BBC has a wide range of websites and apps, ranging from the huge, global BBC News to the specialist, such as Bitesize. Creating this broad variety of experiences, in an…

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Nik Rahmel in BBC Product & Technology

Aug 24, 2017

Evaluating TensorFlow Models in AWS Lambda

How BBC iPlayer classifies thousands of video frames every…

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Kit Wong in BBC Product & Technology

Jul 9, 2017

The Tech Stack that powers BBC iPlayer

A snapshot of our overall technical estate

James Shephard in BBC Product & Technology

Sep 11, 2017

Kotlin, an exploration of Sealed Classes

… and their part in shifting the UI async boundary.

There are a number of teams developing for Android in the Design and Engineering department in Salford, and most are starting to use Kotlin to some…

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Neil Craig in BBC Product & Technology

Oct 16, 2017

How we deliver BBC Web Pages to the Internet

In this post Neil Craig, Lead Technical Architect in the BBC Online Technology…

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Adam Roberts in BBC Product & Technology

May 16, 2017

Making a Geohash of it

The technology behind BBC Terrific Scientific

What is BBC Terrific Scientific?

Despite intervention, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) subjects continue to be less popular…

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