Rapid prototyping in BBC News with Python and AWS
summary
BBC News Labs prototypes use Python and AWS to go from idea to working demo in days not months, claiming to build serverless processing pipelines that journalists can reuse. They stitch AWS Lambda and Step Functions into state-machine pipelines, validate JSON with pydantic, store events in Serverless Postgres (Aurora) and expose APIs via FastAPI + Mangum Lambda URLs. A two‑day MVP injects highlight markers into iPlayer live streams and the prototype works end‑to‑end.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:48Projects
- 3:05Project cycles
- 4:18Ideation
- 6:42Shadowing
- 7:48AWS Lambda
- 8:24Step functions/state machines
- 11:11Pydantic models
- 12:02Pydantic settings
- 14:48Static HTML websites with Chameleon
- 16:47sqlalchemy
- 17:29Lambda function URLs and FastAPI
- 18:59This week's MVP
- 20:15Learning
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