JioHotstar Tech Blog
The engineering blog behind JioHotstar (formerly Disney+ Hotstar), which streams live cricket to tens of millions of concurrent viewers in India. Posts cover orchestrating traffic for live matches, the path of an ad request, round the clock monitoring of live sports streams and mobile playback, plus newer generative video work. The best public source on extreme, spiky live traffic in South Asian markets.
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The engineering blog behind JioHotstar (formerly Disney+ Hotstar), which streams live cricket to tens of millions of concurrent viewers in India. Posts cover orchestrating traffic for live matches, the path of an ad request, round the clock monitoring of live sports streams and mobile playback, plus newer generative video work. The best public source on extreme, spiky live traffic in South Asian markets.
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