The Unseen Battleground: An Architect’s Retro on Streaming 1 Billion Minutes of Live Sports

Written by karanluniya | Published 2025/08/20
Tech Story Tags: real-time-analytics | spark-streaming | business-intelligence | hyper-scale | scaling-analytics | data-science | data-analytics | data-analysis

TLDRConviva streamed 1 billion minutes of live sports by building a hyper-scale, real-time data platform. Using Kafka for ingestion, Spark Streaming for processing, Druid for real-time queries, and Hadoop for historical storage, the team balanced speed, accuracy, and cost. Key lessons: prioritize team velocity, verify every data point, and treat efficiency as a core feature. Small errors matter at scale—precision is everything.via the TL;DR App
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