How Disney Hotstar (now JioHotstar) Scaled Its Infra for 60 Million Concurrent Users

A lot of the details in this infra-heavy article went over my head, but one thing stood out — separating APIs into cacheable and non-cacheable and creating different API gateways for both. The ‘cacheable’ gateway could then be shaved off a bit in terms of unnecessary security and routing checks. That alone made things a lot faster without additional infra.