Real-time Systems·February 29, 2024

Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons

Piyush GuptaEngineering Manager · Slice · ex-Disney+Hotstar · ex-JumpingMinds

How Hotstar processed 5 billion emojis from 55M users during the 2019 Cricket World Cup — Kafka, Spark Streaming, and an in-house system that scaled to power Voting, Polls, and Trivia for major Indian reality shows.

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