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Senior Software Engineer @ BBC

Senior Software Engineer @ BBC

Federico Cargnelutti

October 25, 2017
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  1. Federico Cargnelutti
    BBC Audio & Music

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  2. BBC Audio & Music

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  3. It supports and maintains more than 10 websites, including BBC
    Music, Events, Radio 1, 1Xtra, 2, 3, 4, 4 Extra, 5, 5 Live Sports
    Extra and 6 Music.
    BBC Audio & Music
    The A&M team delivers applications across multiple platforms
    and ensures the integrity, scalability and accessibility of BBC
    services and infrastructure.

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  4. BBC Audio & Music Desktop Sites

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  5. BBC Audio & Music Mobile Sites

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  6. WURFL is a Device Description Repository (DDR) framework
    that enables applications to map HTTP requests to a
    description of the capability of the device that requests the
    page.
    Device Detection
    The BBC uses the Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL)
    open source project to provide device information based on
    the User-Agent string of a user's device.

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  7. BBC Audio & Music Modules

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  8. BBC Audio & Music APIs

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  9. BBC iPlayer Radio Application

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  10. The BBC iPlayer Radio application for iPhone, iPad, iPod and Android
    has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times since launch.
    BBC iPlayer Radio Application

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  11. London Olympics 2012

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  12. Week one in numbers:
    The BBC Sport website recorded 18m unique browsers
    and received 729,000 requests for the video of Bradley
    Wiggins winning his gold medal.
    1.5m downloads of the Olympics app.
    55% of browsers came from non-desktop services.
    London Olympics 2012

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  13. London Olympics 2012

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  14. Architecture Overview

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  15. August 2012
    18 million visitors to the BBC Sports website the first
    week of the Olympics.
    January 2013
    The BBC website achieved record global traffic with 64
    million visitors worldwide.
    April 2013
    Radio saw a record-breaking 74 million requests, 84 per
    cent of which were for live listening.
    Volumetrics

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  16. Quality Assurance

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  17. Code Reviews

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  18. Continuous Integration

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  19. Code Inspection Metrics

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