Live streaming to 25.3M concurrent viewers: Deal with traffic spike

In 2019, Hotstar created a global record for live streaming to 25.3 million concurrent viewers. What all happened?

During the ICC 2019 World Cup Semi-Final between India and New Zealand, Hotstar set a new world record for live streaming to 25.3 million concurrent viewers. That's more than any other platform has ever managed before!

How did Hotstar achieve this? And what things happened during this process? Let's take a look.

What happened?

On day 2 of the match, the first spike witnessed was fro...