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That's probably a very tiny fraction of their request footprint so it doesn't surprise me.

This.

If you only got 100-1000 users, then 200 Lambdas per second is much.

But if you got millions of users, it's not.

I sort of wonder why it isn't a content workflow in the background that triggers (say) a push to Fastly or Cloudflare to update a subset of cached content.

Or maybe it is that, and that still takes 200 lambdas/sec.

From the article:

> About 2,000 lambdas run every second to create the BBC website; a number that we expect to grow.