How to Scale Up During Covid: Online Gaming, eCommerce and Recruiting

The panel discussed how companies in Online Gaming, eCommerce and Recruiting have successfully scaled up during Covid-19 pandemic. Dream11, India's largest fantasy sports platform, addressed challenges of serving contests to millions of users with Aerospike, Spark, and Kafka streaming support. Naukri, the leading job portal in India, overcame cost and complexity challenges with a cached architecture using Aerospike for central persistent caching, secondary indices, and computation capability in the caching layer. SnapDeal, one of India's largest e-commerce platforms, leveraged real-time user inputs and database updates to identify users across platforms and channels, enabling personalization, vernacularization, gamification, search notifications, multi-channel attribution, and retargeting. The webinar provided insights into how these companies achieved scalability during the pandemic.