Hotstar: 25.3 million viewers, one match
How Hotstar served 25.3 million people watching India vs New Zealand at once on 10 July 2019: why reactive autoscaling was too late, the capacity ladder and the scorecard as a forecast, a CDN built as a shock absorber, panic mode, and the thundering herd when the wicket falls.
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CASE-013 · 25.3 Million People, One Cricket Match: Why Hotstar Scaled Before the Star Walked In
25.3 million people. One match.
10 July 2019, the reserve day
Rain stopped play in Manchester, so India and New Zealand came back on the reserve day, the tenth of July, 2019, to finish their World Cup semi-final.
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