At hotstar, one of the important metrics which we present to end-users and our business partners is the number of people watching live. While this may seem to be a simple problem of rendering a number, but it ain’t. It’s not an approximate number, it’s an actual number and it need to be presented in real-time to users. Each unique user is counted in real-time, every minute we receive millions of … more

SRE for time-sensitive events like live streaming cricket in India! more