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MaxView: game-changing, literally
MaxView: game-changing, literally
A nail biting tale of how we changed 90 years of broadcasting history. Disney+ Hotstar unveils what it took to bring MaxView to life!
Angad Bhalla
Mar 19
Code Less, Achieve More: Disney+ Hotstar’s Approach to Modern Access Control
Code Less, Achieve More: Disney+ Hotstar’s Approach to Modern Access Control
Disney+ Hotstar’s journey on how we simplified AAA management across a plethora of 1P and 3P apps. Introducing our low code platform —…
Eason Xu
Jan 1
Hotstar X: Rebuilding the Disney+ Hotstar experience
Hotstar X: Rebuilding the Disney+ Hotstar experience
Disney+ Hotstar’s design team narrates how they brought about their biggest app experience update
Fairooz Nazar
Sep 19, 2023
Innovations in high-quality transcoding: Hotstar’s tale of 10x scale up
Innovations in high-quality transcoding: Hotstar’s tale of 10x scale up
This article discusses how we upped the content transcoding game at Disney+ Hotstar
madhukar bhat
Jun 19, 2023
HotstarX -Part 4: Getting hands dirty
HotstarX -Part 4: Getting hands dirty
We look at the internal details of how various parts of the HotstarX BFF stack were implemented.
Harsh Mittal
May 24, 2023
Fortifying your API Gateway: Defending Millions of Requests against Potential Exploitations
Fortifying your API Gateway: Defending Millions of Requests against Potential Exploitations
Explore our journey of building a centralized and robust authentication mechanism at our API Gateway.
Ziheng Wang
May 9, 2023
De-bottlenecking Aurora MySQL for 19 Million concurrent users
De-bottlenecking Aurora MySQL for 19 Million concurrent users
How we root caused performance issues in Aurora MySQL scaling and fixed them by attacking low level architectural details.
Ishank Gulati
Jan 30, 2023
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Capturing a billion Emojis
Capturing a billion Emojis
Moving from a third party system to our in-house system that has processed more than 3 billion emoji’s till date!
Dedeepya Bonthu
Apr 8, 2020
Hotstar’s Journey from EC2 to containers
Hotstar’s Journey from EC2 to containers
This article will describe the journey of Hotstar’s infrastructure from EC2 to kubernetes. The journey about why what and how we migrated…
Prakhar
Oct 4, 2020
Scaling for Tsunami traffic
Scaling for Tsunami traffic
At Hotstar we see a lot of traffic surges based on the popularity of the live event. The number of live events and news content streaming…
Kaushik Chandrashekar
Apr 18, 2019
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