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India vs Pak: How JioHotstar Pulled Off 60 Crore Live Stream Views
- The recent ICC Champions Trophy 2025 match between India and Pakistan garnered 60.2 crore views on JioHotstar, posing technical challenges for the engineering team.
- The introduction of free mobile subscriptions led to 50 million simultaneous streams, necessitating a revamp of JioHotstar's infrastructure for seamless user experience.
- JioHotstar's live streaming architecture incorporates complex CDNs and API gateways for efficient content distribution and traffic management.
- The team optimized traffic handling by creating dedicated CDN domains for cacheable requests and deploying high-throughput nodes.
- Migration to Amazon EKS from self-managed Kubernetes clusters enhanced scalability by offloading cluster management.
- Network throughput challenges, such as NAT Gateway congestion, were addressed by subnet-level configurations and load balancing.
- Infrastructure optimizations and network scaling were critical in managing the 60.2 crore views during the India vs Pakistan match.
- Autoscaling faced limitations in handling traffic surges during high-stakes events, necessitating extensive load testing for effective infrastructure planning.
- JioHotstar's 'tsunami testing' with 3,000 machines aids in determining service capabilities during peak traffic, enabling efficient infrastructure scaling.
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