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Situation
A sports media company's stats pipeline collapsed during World Cup traffic peaks, causing 8-minute delays on live scoring.
— Project N°09 / Platform
Lyra Realtime
Realtime stats platform, 4.2M events/sec sustained.
N°09 · PLATFORM
- Client
- Sports Media
- Year
- 2022
- Duration
- 24 weeks
- Team
- 7 engineers
— STAR breakdown
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Task
Build a realtime stats platform sustaining 4M+ events/sec with sub-second delivery to 60M concurrent users.
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Action
- 01Rewrote the ingestion tier in Rust with backpressure-aware Kafka consumers.
- 02Introduced a TimescaleDB + Redis fan-out for hot-path reads.
- 03Load-tested against 1.4× peak historical traffic before launch.
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Result
- 4.2M events/sec sustained during marquee events.
- 820ms median end-to-end delivery.
- Zero incidents across the following two seasons.
— Stack
RustKafkaTS-DB