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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Harsh Mittal

Chief Architect @Disney+ Hotstar

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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…

ChatOps — Cloud Resource Explorer

Cloud Resource Explorer using simple ChatOps

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