Aws

With Dream11 hosting around 10,000+ matches every year on its platform, have you ever wondered what all goes behind hosting these matches? It starts from deciding the match to host, generating the credit of players (keeping the user’s perspective in mind) and taking the match live - the whole picture is much bigger. In this blog we will take you through the whole process of assigning credit to players for individual matches, what data goes behind it, what were the considerations for automating the process and how through data driven intelligence this automation was achieved. We will also discuss the benefits of doing this automation from operational and business POV.

As a part of the agile-based development revolution, organizations have believed in rolling small and quick changes into the market. The theory of building fast-shipping fast plays a significant role in upgrading any product by rolling the features with very little time to market. However, this burdens the tech team’s efficiency in allocating dedicated human resources to ensure these changes seamlessly live onto the application on a frequent basis.

As the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, Dream11 has over 120 million sports fans participating in exciting fantasy sports contests to showcase their skill and knowledge in various sports! With so many users using the app at a given time, our traffic pattern can get very spiky in nature. It can go from thousands of concurrent users to millions in just a few minutes!

Web Application Firewall (WAF) is considered a critical part of an effective security solution that offers website security and strengthens the overall security posture. The end goal for any web application Firewall is to protect the application against:

At Dream11, keeping our users data safe and secure is of primary importance. Users trust us with their information and we go above and beyond to provide the best possible online fantasy sports experience to them while they enjoy their favourite sports. At Dream11, we use S3 buckets. They are an integral part of our cloud computing processes and data storage which are accessed by all tech and non-tech teams with appropriate permissions. But what are S3 buckets?

For the 100 million Dream11 users, the thrill and excitement of playing fantasy sports on our platform is unparalleled. They enjoy creating their own teams and competing with fellow fans and friends! However, from a backend perspective, there are various challenges we face in terms of variation in traffic and engagement on Dream11 majorly before the match start time.

Data is the new oil…only if you can reach meaningful insights out of it. Getting the most relevant insights in the fastest possible way, makes a business stand apart from the crowd. In other words, reliability and speed are the two key metrics when it comes to assessing the quality of insights. However, with growth in user base and resultant data, supporting deep analytics at a large scale becomes a challenge.

Scale to serve over 500,000+ events per second, 5 TB+ ingestion capacity and provide logging, search for micro services, security analytics along with anomaly detection 'Elasticsearch as a Service' for our microservices , security, data services logging and analytics needs in the face of high events frequency and data ingestion requirements_