BBC News on HTTPS

A few weeks ago the BBC News website finished transitioning to HTTPS. The green padlock you now see next to the web address is probably the biggest publicly visible technical change to the site since it relocated from news.bbc.co.uk in 2011. Even so, a question we’re often asked is “why did it…

Server Timing in the Wild

How we expose web performance in iPlayer

Understanding how long the BBC iPlayer website takes to load has always been a difficult challenge which has a real impact on the audience; luckily browsers now have a tremendous amount of…

Improving your App’s Accessibility with iOS 11

Apple introduced iOS 11 at their World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June…

Newsround, nanoservices and serverless

Newsround is one of the key propositions within BBC Children’s as a go-to news service for…

How we built BBC Sounds on the web

In 2017 the engineering teams that had previously worked on iPlayer…

How iPlayer use 10% time to turbo charge innovation?

The importance of autonomy in innovation