
Disney+ Hotstar
Product and Engineering notes from Disney+ Hotstar, India's leading OTT service. Want to work with us? Head on over to https://tech.hotstar.com
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Strengthening S2S Security: How JioHotstar Secures Its Service Ecosystems
This blog dives deep into how IAuth enhances the security and resilience of S2S communication, simplifying security across complex services
Scaling Infrastructure for Millions: From Challenges to Triumphs (Part 1)
Learn about how Disney+ Hotstar scaled the core infrastructure that powers all our services to deliver world class experience for millions.

MaxView: game-changing, literally
A nail biting tale of how we changed 90 years of broadcasting history. Disney+ Hotstar unveils what it took to bring MaxView to life!

Code Less, Achieve More: Disney+ Hotstar’s Approach to Modern Access Control
Disney+ Hotstar’s journey on how we simplified AAA management across a plethora of 1P and 3P apps. Introducing our low code platform —…

Hotstar X: Rebuilding the Disney+ Hotstar experience
Disney+ Hotstar’s design team narrates how they brought about their biggest app experience update

Innovations in high-quality transcoding: Hotstar’s tale of 10x scale up
This article discusses how we upped the content transcoding game at Disney+ Hotstar
HotstarX -Part 4: Getting hands dirty
We look at the internal details of how various parts of the HotstarX BFF stack were implemented.

Fortifying your API Gateway: Defending Millions of Requests against Potential Exploitations
Explore our journey of building a centralized and robust authentication mechanism at our API Gateway.
De-bottlenecking Aurora MySQL for 19 Million concurrent users
How we root caused performance issues in Aurora MySQL scaling and fixed them by attacking low level architectural details.
HotstarX -Part 3: The BFF baseplate
In the previous instalment, we wrote about our tenets for building widgets and how the server vended widget response allows the client apps…
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