Rootconf Hyderabad edition

The talk will focus on why traditional autoscaling doesn’t work for Hotstar (Disney’s OTT streaming service) who recently created a global record for live streaming to 25.3 million concurrent viewers. It will talk about challenges in scaling infrastructure for millions and how to overcome it, how we run gamedays before actual games, how we use load testing monster called Hulk to prepare for peak traffic and also how we add chaos (engineering) in between all these epic scale madness.

Outline

About Hotstar
Why traditional autoscaling doesn’t work for Hotstar
Challenges in scaling
Gamedays and load testing for millions
How we prepare for peak traffic (50M)
Chaos engineering at high level

Speaker bio

Gaurav is a Cloud Architect at Hotstar, India’s leading OTT provider that holds a global concurrency record for live streaming to 25Mn+ viewers. At Hotstar, he loves building cost-efficient infrastructure that can scale to millions in minutes. He is also passionate about chaos engineering and cloud security.

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IYLsySe_thA6qeztnL4Tmhszdu2Wd5-3CKKLm26m-9Y/edit?usp=sharing