BBC Online Uses Serverless to Scale Extremely Fast
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In a series of blog posts published recently, BBC Online’s lead technical architect explains why BBC Online uses serverless and how they optimize for it. According to the author, BBC Online uses AWS Lambda for most of its core implementation due to its ability to scale extremely fast. When a breaking news story erupts, traffic can increase 3x in a single minute and then keep rising after that. (Read more on InfoQ)