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Scaling hotstar.com for 25 million concurrent viewers
Gaurav Kamboj
C M Y 3 0 2
Cloud Architect
Hotstar
About hotstar
● Disney-owned #1 OTT platform in India
● Over 350 million downloads
● 1 day, more than 100 million unique users
● Available in more than 15 languages
● Variety of content
○ Live/on-demand
○ Sports/news/TV/movies
○ Regional catalogue
Concurrency pattern25.3M
13.9M
16.2M
Let’s talk about scale
Why is that a big number?
8M
Felix Baumgartner’s
Supersonic Jump
YouTube
3.1M
Super Bowl
NBC Sports App
10.3M
IPL 2018 - Final
hotstar
18.6M
IPL 2019 - Final
hotstar
25.3M
World Cup – India vs New Zealand
hotstar
Game DayFace the real game before actual game
Load Generation Arch.
us-east-1
us-west-1
eu-west-2
eu-west-1
Race against time
Why we don’t use auto scaling
Battle-tested scaling strategy
Ingredients of actual Chaos
What are we looking for?
Panic mode
P0 services must be
always up
Graceful Degradation
Turn off non-critical
services
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Key takeaways
• Prepare for failures
• Understand your user journey
• Okay to degrade gracefully
Thank you!
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Gaurav Kamboj
@oyehooye
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