When MS Dhoni Got Out: How Hotstar Survived 25 Million Concurrent Users
July 9th, 2019. India vs New Zealand, Cricket World Cup semi-final. MS Dhoni walks to the crease and 1.1 million new viewers join Hotstar every single minute. Then he gets run out — and 24 million people hit the back button almost simultaneously.
25.3M peak concurrent
1.1M users/min growth
5.7 Tbps bandwidth
+3
1M requests/sec
108,000 CPU test rig
<90s scale reaction