We’ve talked a lot about the technical challenges of streaming and broadcasting previous Olympic Games, and how predictions about demand are driving technology forward. We’ve talked about how big names scale up and use Varnish as a key enabler for scalability. As the Rio Olympics draws nearer, though, we realized that nothing seems quite as real as when you make it visual.
The US election season is fully underway with the first-out-of-the-gate events behind us.
What happens every four years and drives media traffic sky high?
No, this is not the windup to a joke with a lame punchline. Instead it’s a warning about how much your website traffic can spike when big news events – like the US presidential election results – occur.
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