WIN202: The Gronk Effect: Efficiently Handling Huge Spikes in Traffic Using Predictive Analytics at DraftKings
AWS re:Invent 2017 - En podkast av AWS
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DraftKings is the largest Daily Fantasy Sports platform on which millions of users compete in 11 different fantasy sports for a chance to win real money. The traffic on the DraftKings website and native apps is highly volatile and directly correlates with the interest in sporting events, with scoring events in those games frequently driving a five-fold spike in traffic on a minute-to-minute basis. In this session, you learn how DraftKings runs a highly elastic server farm and scales its Windows-based infrastructure using a combination of AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling groups, and predictive analysis techniques.