Dream11

This blog delves into how Dream11 enhances user experience through intelligent image delivery. It also highlights the use of AWS's CloudFormation template.

Adopting React Native to host 220 million users is just the beginning of our mobile app development journey. At Dream11 we prioritize startup time to boost user engagement and experience. Strategies such as harnessing the potential of Hermes Binary Bundle, proactively prefetching data, and activating the metro inline require flag, significantly reducing the startup time of the app. This blog explores optimizations enhancing app startup time, showcasing our commitment to world-class user experiences.

Dream11 thrives on providing world-class user experiences to sports fans. With 200 million registered users, ensuring a smooth, unbroken app experience is crucial. The Dream11 app, powered by React native, is a critical and the most customer-facing component of the system. Moving to React Native was a big strategic bet and one of our team's most technically and organisationally challenging initiatives. In this article, we will cover why, among all cross-platform application development technologies, React Native was the best fit, and our gradual migration.

In today’s #BeyondTheAlgorithm, Aditya, AVP - Analytics & Decision Science at Dream11 shares his three-year journey of merging his passions—sports and technology at Dream11

Dream11 is gearing up for an action-packed IPL 2024 season with exciting new features. The app now has a streamlined onboarding process and a user-friendly interface, all to offer a world-class user experience. Get ready to dive into the thrill of fantasy cricket with Dream11's latest innovations!

At Dream11, experimentation runs deep in our DNA. We believe in building a culture that gives Dreamsters opportunities to experiment, fail and learn. In this blog, we deep dive into our journey to optimise payment success rates. We’ll touch upon the challenges we faced, the solutions deployed and the mathematical underpinnings behind our approach. Join us as we delve into the world of non-stationary bandits and how they've helped us maximise the success rate of payment routing.

In a record-breaking feat, Dream11's app has taken fan engagement to new heights this year, managing a concurrency of 10.56 million users during the Indian Premier League (IPL). This time of the year, the Dream11 Stadium is nothing short of stepping onto the cricket field itself, and it's all thanks to the extraordinary efforts by our super talented teams of engineers, data scientists, product developers, designers, customer experience and ops experts. But the real magic happens when we dive into the minds of our #Dreamsters. Join us as we unveil their gameplan and insights leading upto India’s biggest sporting event in Indian cricket – the TATA IPL 2023. Get ready to go #BehindTheDream!

Meet Harsh Agrawal, our Director of Engineering at Dream11. He started as a young engineer with a curiosity for data science, and nearly 6 years later, today, he leads Dream11’s engineering efforts. Right from starting as a junior developer to leading teams building cutting-edge products, or going from one giant monolithic system to hundreds of microservices, Harsh’s journey is also a key indicator of the Dream11 app’s evolution from a simple fantasy cricket app to the world’s largest fantasy sports platform catering to 200 million+ users. His incredible experiences, from the early days of joining the startup revolution to becoming an integral part of Dream11's phenomenal growth story, are a testament to his dedication and expertise. In this edition, let’s discover Harsh’s passion for cricket and unique tech challenges.

Technology is our backbone to delivering a world-class user experience. In the first edition of our #BeyondTheAlgorithm series, we embarked on a journey to highlight the remarkable achievements of our Technology and Engineering teams at Dream11. In this blog, Pradip Thoke, VP of Data Engineering, Dream11, shares his inspiring story of dedication, and perseverance that has helped shape the company’s engineering prowess.