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How bitdrift scaled to 121 million concurrent gRPC connections on Amazon CloudFront for live telemetry sporting events
BY
Raghuram Gururajan
SOURCE
AWS Architecture Blog
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When 121 million mobile devices establish persistent gRPC connections to your origin infrastructure within seconds of a live broadcast, the routing policy behind your DNS records matters far more than it does at normal …
When 121 million mobile devices establish persistent gRPC connections to your origin infrastructure within seconds of a live broadcast, the routing policy behind your DNS records matters far more than it does at normal traffic levels. The wrong policy can concentrate all your connections onto a single origin endpoint, turning a scaling success into an