#dhoni
#csk
win , 3.2Cr world record - cup is full 🙏 nothing possible without incredible team mates and team work ! Wholesome way to end a long cricket sports season !
This
#TATAIPL2024
season, my favourite feature has got to be the cricket scores on
#iPhone
using live events! Nothing works at scale out of the box for our audience demands, so we had to make our own tweaks. Read all about It here - from the blog -
The episode with
@akisaxena
(CTO of
@DisneyPlusHS
) is live right now !
Lots of interesting things here, including scaling up teams, moving from a tech built by Accenture, to in-house, on prod, in less than a year, and then setting world records for live streaming!
What a historic ride it’s been so far. This goes out to everyone who I’ve had the honour to lead at
#hotstar
- we not only broke , but defined the digital ceiling. 🚀
No matter what you do, it’s a real treat to see/experience people immersed in their craft. It feels kinda like the matrix where you can’t un-see it. The level of conversations and mutual respect is special.
Words matter - was sharing with team in a context of delivery - everything that is not built, is broken, and all features are fixes 😀. Valuable to contextualise your work, so that your stakeholders understand it’s not an oversight, but it’s mindful continuous improvement.
Adding observability is a key milestone in your team's maturity to focusing on customer value. Here's a starter guide and deeper cuts if you want to go further.
Shoutout to the team
@100mslive
- just out of private beta, test drove the product and had a working product in seconds! Audio/Video Rooms, Classrooms/Coaching - many use-cases
#joy
#kudos
to the team
#hotstar_alum
The
@ESPNcricinfo
stories are 🔥 the team really pulled out a good one on this! It’s really amped my experience as a customer!
@sambitbal
and teams content was always 💯, this just adds a awesome dimension !
#proud
How do we ensure that not a single moment is missed during
#OlympicGames
when there are 20 live streams on simultaneously? Check out key
Moments 🚀 on the
@JioCinema
app.
It’s not one thing / service that makes achieving high scale possible. It’s first principles engineering combined with
#opex
- then you wait for the big wave to come 🚀
#Ashwin
masterclass on split second decision making - leveraging his knowledge/instinct/gut and just “externally visible” zero fear of outcome - glad it paid off for him. Stuff like this separates 🔥 wins like this, encourage others to try- plenty naysayers
Hold your head high
#india
, that was a great run - you inspired us to believe and not just
#hope
against hope - hard luck on the day to lose a crucial toss. ❤️
Then it was 10. Ten has always stood for brilliance. Pele/Tendulkar. Last evening more than 10m customers watched a brilliant team win, while my own brilliant team
@hotstartweets
steered the experience.
#humbled
#CSKvsSRH
“Heard immunity” : when you’ve heard the same advice so many times that you’re immune to it. 🙈 these are the folks who Still think it’s okay to step out sans mask in July 2020!
When builders from both sides of the aisle connect - you get an immersive experience that’s golden for the fans! So much fun building this ! ❤️ what the team has built! Do give it a try!
#manantine
Going live in 24 hours with
@DisneyPlusHS
's SVP Engineering
@akisaxena
,
@myntra
's VP & Head Data Science Ravindra Babu Tallamraju &
@hackerrank
's Co Founder & CTO
@sp2hari
.
Look forward to conversing with you all on LinkedIn Live! 😀
Event details here:
Loving the textual sticky notification format for the
#OlympicGames
that we put together on
@JioCinema
- perfect for cherry picking my favourite event while not keeping my video on all the time!
@nishantmodak
@AjeyGore
@ponnappa
@_svs_
@_swanand
synonymous for us at
#hotstar
- reliability is front & center, while we celebrate our features, number of glitch/drama free days are hugely appreciated. This is tested routinely on event days, in a busy event calendar.
Wow!
#ICCWorldCup2019
semi-final between
#INDvsNZ
attracted 25.3M peak concurrent viewers, 36% more than previous record of 18.6M set in May. Live online sports viewing has grown dramatically. Testimony to the exceptional sports viewing experience of
@Hotstartweets
and
@Akamai
Catch
@akisaxena
(Head of Engg,
@DisneyPlusHS
) talk to
@Sengupta
about building streaming tech for a concurrent viewership of 25.3M Indians (India-NZ semis,
@ICC
ODI WC), and how to manage tech costs in a post-Covid world.
RSVP:
If you’re attending
#GHCI19
in
#Bangalore
today - check out this great talk by Namita & Pranali around how
@hotstartweets
handles personalisation at scale
“Quiet Scaling” - Kudos to prodn, content ops & live streaming teams.
#olympics
ran for 17d w/ 24 live streams. 55 playout stations to deliver ads.Hit a peak of 67 live streams across all genres over a non IPL weekend. Our IPL record is 223 concurrent live streams. unique globally
Hiring🚨: an early-stage global devtool/infra co is hiring for a FE Lead, PM & PMM. Founders are exceptional engg leaders & built multiple 0-1 startups & large products. V. well funded w/ global enterprise CxOs across India/US as angels/advisors. Fully remote! DM me w/ your LIn.
#vaccine
allocation does not build confidence at all. already had a constrained resource (vaccine), plus a second dose wave. Opening 18-45 is just PR, pointless when no meaningful velocity possible. Risk for 2nd dose - undoing initial foundation also!
Jerry McGuire level essay by Praveen Seshadri- very well written critique of how organisations can grind to a halt. Factual observations and a real call to arms to lead with value streams
Our
#hindi_descriptive
video feed on
@DisneyPlusHS
is 🔥. A step to make our product more
#accessible
and also such an amazing way to watch the game come alive! Highly recommended! proud that we did it !
Years ago, upon using the word “users” in a technical context, I got corrected, “they’re our customers”. It’s subtle, but carries such meaning in how we think about the who we serve and build for.
@harishdotgif
Great idea - done. Scroll down on your
#Olympics
tab and you’ll see it. Our excellent content creators already envisioned this. Checkout Olympics Archery Explained on JioCinema. Click now!
While we’re now over last year’s finale concurrency (10.8M) and counting - on streaming, the nuance on streaming is 22 streams x languages x formats. the ops and engineering gets
#intense
Labour of love by the
@ESPNcricinfo
team! So proud that we were able to undertake what was a pretty hurculean effort and re-launch for the fans!
@sambitbal
was our biggest cheerleader!
The app update for
@ESPNcricinfo
is now live on both Android and iOS. It’s much lighter, so much faster; scores are far more accessible; and has a deeper navigation. And big bonus: we have highlights for
#INDvAUS
There are days when sport makes you believe. The test cricket win at
#gabba
was one such day. I couldn’t help draw paralells to software delivery. Here’s what I thought :
Me(to offspring): open the window, fresh air, help your air filter, it’s just a poor robot
Offspring: as per Star Wars, never underestimate a droid 🤩
#parentingwin
#starwars
This is so gold. So much underrated stuff in here. Engineers frown at being coached on writing and speaking well and not "gud" 🤦♂️ must read guide to effective meetings
Shameless plug for
@dezervHQ
- they are GA now - go sign up and level up on wealth creation. I’m a customer, have used the product!
@sandeepjethwani
and team are tops! 🚀
18.6 to close the evening - we ran pretty hot tonight, but we kept up! Super proud of the team! Fantastic to see the team get a crack at unlocking and sustaining such massive demand!
#keep_it_coming
Good product design is so important in everything. Watching the maintainence of things is educational. As in software as well - something well put together, is so much easier to maintain
I am hiring a Lead Security engineer for
@TheJupiterApp
. We are on a mission to improve the way we do banking. Here is the JD: ; Please apply or DM me if you are interested.
#security
#hiring
Looking forward to a great chat with Raghav Chandra. We’re discussing “Scaling the D2C Tech Platform”, at 9th NASSCOM Annual Technology Conference 2022
Yesterday, we made internet history:
@hotstartweets
&
@Akamai
reached 5.5M concurrent viewers. Largest event on our platform by any broadcaster EVER. This is the future of video for billions.
#IPL2018
#Hotstar
#Akamai
I will be speaking at
#RootConf
Pune on Saturday (21/09) about scaling Hotstar for 25 million concurrent viewers. How we prepare our platform for big games.
To know more & get 10% off on the regular tickets visit
#cloud
#devops
#SRE
#pune
#docker
#k8s