Bleacher Report has published a journal and it has said that the world’s second-largest sports website uses the control of Elixir for their marketing. It is used to handle better traffic diversion for the company and to help with the real-time event covering the age and the fastest-growing digital properties in the US.
At the peak of times, they have grown and have shown that over 1.5 billion page views have been garnered on their site. It had over 2000000 concurrent requests to their mobile apps alone. The supported report which was organized by Elixir said that the new arrangement has been made from Ruby to Elixir. Here are some of the results which have been published from the said report.
- In a recent test which was done, it showed that the heavily surveyed traffic has been shifted and it is there to handle the 8x average traffic load without the need to auto-scan.
- The new mobile app which was downloaded by Elixir has been made to receive a lot of push notifications. The app has made a profit 10 times more than the recent years.
- There was no significant jump in CPU storage management. There was no need for autoscanning and data matching as well.
- The traffic which has been generated has spiked about aggressive auto scanning strategies over time. There has been a leap of about 95 percent in the prototype and have noticeably been affected by the traffic spikes that the data laden information has restored.
What is the challenge faced for the report?
According to the content which was published by Bleacher’s report, it said that the new leader in real-time and mobile-first sports content provider reaching over 250M of traffic. The creation of the mobile app which goes by the name of Team Stream has garnered over more than millions of views and has a good turning point for the company as a whole.
The team initially investigated a number of different programming languages which could have been good for the content provider application being drafted. But at the same time, the team wanted to fixate their decision onto one and they choose the basic. It was a combination of the Erlang Virtual Machine and Ruby Syntax. Bleacher Report has completed its first production system at the same time. It has been made sure that their code was completely sound and that they did not have done anything that might have caused any pain down the road.
Conclusion
The architecture of the application and the software that has been used for the methodologies and functioning have been praised for their run. Code reviews which have been presented with the help of the app have been easy for the people to find a fault function with the code and then report it to the concerning authorities. It has been proven good and in essential ways with manual disruption.