Serverless for Visual Journalism at the BBC | Doug Winter
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The document outlines the serverless visual journalism tech stack used by the BBC, detailing components like authentication systems, AWS API Gateway, and Express framework. It emphasizes the importance of designing the development environment and tooling considerations. Key resources and lessons learned from the implementation are also discussed.
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Serverless for Visual Journalism at the BBC | Doug Winter
- 1. Serverless Visual Journalism at the BBC Doug Winter
- 12. Tech stack
- 13. Many moving parts React client assets Visualisation assets Deliver assets Publish workflowRender assets Authentication
- 14. API Gateway does the heavy lifting Photo by Victor Freitas on Unsplash
- 15. Authentication ■ API Gateway has a flexible authentication subsystem ■ However, BBC have their own PKI and issue client certs ■ API Gateway doesn't support these certs
- 16. Authentication Client Browser Apache Express Proxy BBC login API Gateway AWS4 Signed Requests
- 17. Resources This is what a complete set of resources for this application looks like.
- 18. Development environment ■ Express hosted in lambda using aws-serverless-express ■ Dev environments hacked to run express "normally" ■ Magic /{proxy+} in the API gateway forwards all requests
- 19. Asset database JSON blobs Stored directly into S3 using AWS Service integration
- 20. Asset database
- 22. Lessons ■ Consider your development environment as you design ■ Tooling ■ API Gateway ■ David Attenborough
- 23. Thank you