Case Study: Sky plc scales sports and streaming services with Cloud Foundry

Sky plc serves 23 million customers with Cloud Foundry

Sky plc, a major digital pay television company in the UK and Europe, needed a highly scalable and flexible platform to handle immense traffic for its services, including Sky Mobile, online shops, and the high-demand Sky Sports channel. They turned to the vendor Cloud Foundry to build a robust internal platform capable of supporting their distributed development teams and managing dramatic spikes in user requests.

By implementing Cloud Foundry, Sky plc built a platform that efficiently handles thousands of requests per second, scaling to 4,000 application containers on average and much higher during major events. The solution from Cloud Foundry provided the necessary flexibility to expand their operations across Europe without being a bottleneck, enabling Sky to reliably deliver services like Netflix and sports to 23 million customers.

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