Can Your System Survive a Sudden 500K Live Viewers? 4 Proven Traffic‑Splitting Techniques
When a live broadcast suddenly attracts 500,000 viewers, the system faces 100,000 QPS likes and rapid reward transactions; this article breaks down a battle‑tested traffic‑splitting architecture—room‑based sharding, queue buffering, multi‑layer write caching, and consistent‑hash sharding—showing how each component controls load, ensures consistency, and enables seamless scaling.
