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i agree, i've actually worked at the bbc and the infrastructure that goes into these things is unbelievable and necessary.

• rasur 13y ago
  same here. It's absolutely not a couple of servers and a bit of node, kids!
  • brador 13y ago
    Then what is it?
    • rasur 13y ago
      Well, I haven't worked there since about 2006, so numbers may have changed, but it was at least 10000 servers of various types (redhat, solaris, windows were the usual suspects I had to build out) of which I was aware (between maidenhead, the various colo's i had some responsibility for, tv center, white-city). software? i know there was a lot of perl, ruby was gaining some traction, a few different CMS's.. etc, i've (thankfully) forgotten most of the details, but diverse ecosystem is an appropriate phrase here. undoubtedly things have changed between then and now, but i'd guess it's something similar hardware-wise. My penultimate day of work was racking up ~300 servers for the i-player farm (i was a system engineer) at red-bus in docklands. My back has only really just started to recover. :/