Case Study: SofaScore achieves faster, reliable real-time sports delivery with Fastly

SofaScore delivers real-time sports data to 34.5 million users with Fastly

SofaScore, a global provider of real-time sports scores and statistics, faced significant challenges handling massive, simultaneous traffic spikes from millions of users receiving push notifications during major games. Their previous CDN provider's rate limits and unreliable purge capabilities caused stale content and forced them to deploy a complex, self-built infrastructure. SofaScore needed a solution from a vendor like Fastly to reliably manage these extreme spikes and deliver dynamic data efficiently.

By implementing Fastly's CDN with Instant Purge and VCL, SofaScore achieved a 97-99% cache hit rate and eliminated stale data. The solution dramatically improved performance, reducing response times from 200ms to 20ms in Brazil and from 500ms to 80ms in Australia. Fastly provided the scalability and flexibility to handle all traffic peaks, supporting SofaScore's growth to a record 34.5 million monthly active users.

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