With close to 110 million users and products such as Dream 11, FanCode, Dream X, Dream Sports, Dream Sports (Dream 11’s parent company) is India’s first gaming startup to become a unicorn.
During the 2020 IPL, Dream 11 managed 60 million requests per minute and witnessed above 8000 contest joins per second.
Handling these gigantic numbers is not an easy feat and according to the company’s CIO, Abhishek Ravi, believes the early adoption of cloud has been one of the most critical parts of the company’s digital strategy.
“This gave us assurance for long-term scale with resilience. Given the elastic traffic pattern that Dream11 witnesses, we have been serving the state-of-the-art user experience with optimised cost,” he said.
Ravi believes the company is very strong in managing traffic at scale. In the latest IPL edition, Dream11 witnessed 5.5 Million users concurrency in one of the matches.
For such cases (traffic surge), the company has deployed two strategies - predictive and reactive.
An automated platform predicts the expected traffic for every match, and the automated scripts take care of baseline IT Infrastructure Deployment dynamically every hour/minute level.
“We ensure that our microservices are horizontally scalable with auto-scaling enabled so that it can scale in case of sudden load or back pressure. We continuously test our load environments to get the right sizing,” said Ravi.
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