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Notes from the streaming trenches.
Engineering, product, and ops lessons from running analytics for streaming platforms across India.
- Engineering·24 April 2026·8 min read
What IPL 2026 taught us about concurrency at scale
Peak 184k concurrent viewers on one stream. Here's what broke, what held, and the four ops patterns that kept us live.
Read post by Abhishek Sharma - QoS·6 April 2026·12 min read
Why your ABR ladder needs an ISP dimension in India
Jio fibre vs Airtel vs ACT behaves very differently. One rung doesn't fit all — here's how we tune per-ISP.
Read post by Priya Desai - Product·20 March 2026·6 min read
The retention curve of Indian drama serials
Across 47 streaming services, daily dramas show a distinctive W4 cliff that completely breaks the usual SaaS retention math.
Read post by Karthik Raman - Privacy·4 March 2026·10 min read
DPDP compliance for streaming platforms — a practical guide
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, translated into implementation decisions for video products.
Read post by Tapemetric Team