Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this QCon London video, Sophie Beaumont, Engineering Manager at the BBC, reveals the critical strategies and tooling her team built to successfully scale their web design system - WebCore - to handle over 4.8 billion requests per month across 10 major BBC brands.
⏱️ Video Timestamps (For Navigation)
0:00 - The "Squiffy" Garden Fence: A Cautionary Tale
1:03 - Meet the Speaker & The Scale of BBC WebCore (4.8 Billion Requests!)
2:45 - The Federated 'Gardening' Contribution Model
4:15 - Flexible Onboarding for Every Discipline
6:20 - Leveraging Theming Tokens for Consistency (The "Levers" System)
9:45 - Mandatory Ownership to Prevent Orphaned Components
11:05 - The Collaboration Challenge: 235 Sub-Brands and Maintenance
12:05 - The Color Picker Tooling Solution: Dynamic, Accessible Branding
14:10 - Recap: Key Principles for a Maintainable Design System
🔗 Transcript available on InfoQ: bit.ly/4hJ0bwb
#DesignSystem #SoftwareArchitecture #BBCEngineering
In this QCon London video, Sophie Beaumont, Engineering Manager at the BBC, reveals the critical strategies and tooling her team built to successfully scale their web design system - WebCore - to handle over 4.8 billion requests per month across 10 major BBC brands.
⏱️ Video Timestamps (For Navigation)
0:00 - The "Squiffy" Garden Fence: A Cautionary Tale
1:03 - Meet the Speaker & The Scale of BBC WebCore (4.8 Billion Requests!)
2:45 - The Federated 'Gardening' Contribution Model
4:15 - Flexible Onboarding for Every Discipline
6:20 - Leveraging Theming Tokens for Consistency (The "Levers" System)
9:45 - Mandatory Ownership to Prevent Orphaned Components
11:05 - The Collaboration Challenge: 235 Sub-Brands and Maintenance
12:05 - The Color Picker Tooling Solution: Dynamic, Accessible Branding
14:10 - Recap: Key Principles for a Maintainable Design System
🔗 Transcript available on InfoQ: bit.ly/4hJ0bwb
#DesignSystem #SoftwareArchitecture #BBCEngineering
