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๐Ÿš€ Re-post: How the BBC World Service migrated 31 million weekly readers to an isomorphic react app - Pretty great writeup from the engineering team about their migration from a PHP monolith, itโ€™s cool that they are running server rendered React now, they do a lot of great work when it comes to accessibility since their sites are published in so many different languages and are optimised to run in a huge variety of network connectivity conditions, Iโ€™d like to know more about the backend the new system is using, something the article doesnโ€™t cover, did they change backend language? They mention itโ€™s running on cloud infra, but where? And are they using serverless?links.markjgsmith.com #

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