BBC makes switch to AWS serverless for new website architecture observers grumble about the HTML
News aggregator says it’s ‘way more complicated and much harder to parse’ Updated The BBC website, the sixth most popular in the UK, has mostly migrated from bit barns to Amazon Web Services (AWS) with around half the site now rendered on AWS Lambda, a serverless platform.…
Date: 2020-11-04
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