Dev ops

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced their next generation general-purpose Solid State Drives (SSD) volumes in December 2020, aka GP3. In the previous version GP2, high throughput and Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) were required for better performance, and a large storage or IOPS volume was needed to be provisioned. This usually led to the wastage of storage resources at much higher costs.

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!

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.

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_