AWS re:Invent 2018: Scaling a Fantasy Sports Platform with Amazon ElastiCache & Amazon Aurora STP11

Dream11 is India’s leading sports-tech startup. It has a growing base of 40 million+ users playing multiple sports, including fantasy cricket, football, and basketball, and it currently serves one million concurrent users, who produce three million requests per minute under a 50-millisecond response time. In this talk, Dream11 CTO Amit Sharma explains how the company uses Amazon Aurora and Amazon ElastiCache to handle flash traffic, which can triple within a 30-second response window. Sharma also talks about scaling transactions without locking, and he shares the steps for handling flash traffic—thereby serving five million daily active users. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: Scaling a Fantasy Sports Platform with Amazon ElastiCache & Amazon Aurora (STP11)