The Hot Content Problem: how to handle spikes in traffic

Description

The Game of Thrones finale crashed. The show got so popular that the app couldn’t keep up. If you’re visiting this page then you probably have some experience with the pressure that popular content puts on a system. In gaming, retail, and streaming there is constant hope (and fear) that a game, a product, or a show will go viral. In this webinar, we take a look at the architectural vulnerabilities exposed by hot content. And we discuss decisions you can make to alleviate that pressure. We ask and answer questions like the following: • How does your system handle the challenge of spiky volume? • How does your system handle complex metadata at scale? • What does an efficient caching system look like? In this session our host, Jim Walker, is joined by Gary Lau, a software engineer who spent the last decade in media companies (Nintendo, Disney, Hulu), where he worked extensively with the movement and analysis of large data sets - specializing in the development of backend services that leverage the data.