How the BBC uses Cloud Run and BigQuery to process logs
Editors note: Today's post is from Neil Craig at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. Neil is part of the BBC’s Digital Distribution team which is responsible for building the services such as the public-facing www bbc.co.uk and .com websites and ensuring they are able to scale and operate reliably.
The BBC’s public-facing websites inform, educate, and entertain over 498 million adults per week across the world. Because breaking news is so unpredictable, we need a core content delivery platform that can easily scale in response to surges in traffic, which can be quite unpredictable.
To this end, we recently rebuilt our log-processing infrastructure on a Google Cloud serverless platform. We’ve found that the new system, based on Cloud Storage, Eventarc, Cloud Run and BigQuery, enables us to provide a reliable and stable service without us having to worry about...
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