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Scalable architecture
Required a solution that could scale up elastically to higher traffic during IPL months and then down to normal traffic at other times -
High availability and strong consistency
Needed 99.99% uptime with zero outages and support for strong consistency -
Fault tolerant and durable
Application should be highly stable with no data loss
Customer Stories
Dream11 serves millions of concurrent users at scale with Aerospike's real-time data platform
The results
“Thanks to Aerospike’s expertise and our data-driven team, Dream11 has become synonymous with sports fan engagement in India. Now with the IPL resuming soon and with Aerospike’s continued support in Cloud Managed Service, we hope to reach many more milestones and surpass the 5.5 million concurrencies, 80 million requests per minute, and 20,000 team update benchmarks that we had achieved in the IPL’s 2020 edition.”
Abhishek Ravi, Chief Information Officer, Dream11 and Dream Sports
“We had very specific requirements in terms of the scale we had to serve and our prior architecture was starting to show its age. So we had the need to find something that would be better, both in terms of performance and scale, and also more manageable. Aerospike fit that bill.”
Amit Garde, SVP for Backend Engineering, Dream11
“What Aerospike enabled us to do was deliver high performance but at the same time simplify some elements of our software stack and make the ease of day-to-day operations and managing that infrastructure easier as well.”
Amit Garde, SVP for Backend Engineering, Dream11
About the Company
Dream11 is the world’s* largest fantasy sports platform
With 110 million+ users, Dream11 helps Indian sports fans to actively engage with real-life sporting events and showcase their knowledge of cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, futsal, American football & baseball.
*in terms of the number of users
Challenge
Scaling for high user engagement
With 100M+ users and 5.5M concurrent users, Dream11’s main challenge came down to scale. After facing operational issues during IPL 2020, Dream11 determined they needed a solution that could scale seamlessly to meet their business needs and maintain the trust of their customers.
Solution areas
Benefits realized with Aerospike
Improved scalability
Dream11 is able to process records at a rate of 1 million transactions per second
Low latency
Transactions are processed at a low latency of under 15 milliseconds
High availability with strong consistency
Reliable 99.99% uptime with strongly consistent reads and writes
