System Design for 50 Million concurrent users - Explained by Hotstar's Architect.

This video delves into the architectural intricacies of scaling for one of the world's largest OTT platforms, Hotstar, and is presented for educational purposes.

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Speaker Bio
Gaurav, a Cloud Architect at Hotstar, India's leading OTT provider, is renowned for his expertise in building cost-efficient, scalable infrastructure capable of supporting millions of users in minutes. At Hotstar, which holds a global concurrency record for live streaming to over 25 million viewers, Gaurav is passionate about chaos engineering and cloud security.

Talk Overview
In this talk, Gaurav explains why traditional autoscaling methods fall short for Hotstar (Disney’s OTT streaming service), especially given their recent record of streaming to 25.3 million concurrent viewers. The discussion includes:

An overview of Hotstar
The limitations of traditional autoscaling for Hotstar
The challenges of scaling infrastructure to support millions of viewers
The concept of Gamedays and how they use them to prepare for peak traffic
Load testing with their tool "Hulk" to simulate peak conditions
The role of chaos engineering in ensuring robust and reliable service at an epic scale
Tune in to gain insights into the innovative strategies Hotstar employs to maintain seamless performance during massive live streaming events.

[dordahandle]

very well made presentation, unless you don't understand the problem, you wont' have the solution, loved it.

[animalempire]

All same video, description from @perfology 😂😂