# BBC Online -- A year with serverless

DevFeed: [BBC Online -- A year with serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bbc-online-a-year-with-serverless-19169.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://medium.com/bbc-product-technology/bbc-online-a-year-with-serverless-ffc2ae474277?source=rss----ccd524e1760a---4>)

Author: Johnathan Ishmael

Published: 2022-03-30T07:43:48Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [BBC](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bbc.md>)

Topics: [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [React Native](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react-native.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [edge](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/edge.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [render](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/render.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

The BBC reflects on a year of moving its online products from older technology platforms to the shared WebCore serverless platform. About 30% of the migration is complete, and the article reports no operational incidents caused by the underlying technology during the period. It also describes work to support personalised pages, including a BBC homepage that renders and reaches audiences in around 500ms while invoking about 30 functions.

## Source excerpt

BBC Online -- A year with serverlessIts been a little over a year since I published my last two blog posts, in which I outlined the process we went through to choose the technology for BBC online and the steps we took to optimise serverless for our use. Recently my colleague Graeme has published a blog post on the organisational challenges we've faced in delivering this project.The BBC's Office in MediaCity, Salford -- one of many bases that the BBC's Software Engineering teams are located. In this post I reflect on our progress so far, and some of the interesting challenges we are facing while building the BBC's critical digital services. If you're a technology builder, interested in the biggest of challenges, we're always looking for people like you to join our adventure. Throughout the last twelve months our engineering teams have been reimagining and innovating on our products. In doing so they have moved from our older technology platforms on to our new shared serverless platform called 'WebCore'. We're about 30% of our way through moving to this new platform. Despite this, the benefits of using a serverless platform are starting to show. Pages on WebCore (left), pages under development (middle) and pages we're going to start development on (right). Block size represents number of page views across a typical month. During this time we've not had any operational incidents (lack of audience service, or inability to update our pages) caused by the underlying technology. This isn't by luck, serverless has handled many of the performance and operational challenges for us, letting us focus on other parts of our platform resulting in a higher quality platform that is more dependable WebCore highlights for February 2022. Using serverless takes away the need to spend time engineering the fundamentals of your platform, instead allowing you to focus on the value you deliver to your customers. So what have we been doing with that time? Personalisation / Relevancy The BBC ach