Q&A: Behind the Scenes of Running Major Live Streaming Events

AWS Theater , Open to All Badge Holders

Tuesday, April 8 | 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT

W1343 AWS Theater

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Running a large live streaming event, such as the Olympics or Super Bowl, is no easy feat. Massive amounts of data are flowing from CDNs, origin, security and edge services, and devices. Gaining visibility into that data, in one view, is challenging considering it’s dispersed globally. Yet, viewers and advertisers demand a no buffering, error-free, reliable and fast digital experience. As we have seen in the past, just a few points of buffering can lead to social media insults and widespread brand damage.
Hydrolix, a streaming data lake company, provides a managed observability service that drives the largest live streaming events in the world. In partnership with AWS, Akamai and other cloud providers, Hydrolix ran the Super Bowl and Olympics. This Q&A session will feature Hydrolix CTOs Todd Persen and Catherine Johnson discussing what it takes to run a major live streaming event from preparation to game time to close. Think ingesting more than 1 petabyte of data a day, running 55,000 queries and 16x raw data compression. It may seem overwhelming but Hydrolix has proven it can be done.