Case Study: Streamroot achieves World Cup‑scale autoscaling global video delivery with Google Cloud Platform

Streamroot Powering robust, scalable video delivery for the World Cup

Streamroot is a peer‑to‑peer video delivery company that powers high‑quality live and on‑demand streaming for major broadcasters, delivering about 20 million video sessions a day. Rapid, global growth and massive, time‑zone‑distributed traffic peaks (for events like the World Cup) exposed limits in its prior infrastructure and forced the company to find an architecture that could autoscale instantly and distribute load worldwide without downtime.

Streamroot replatformed to Google Cloud using a microservices architecture on Google Kubernetes Engine with Google Cloud Load Balancing and Stackdriver for monitoring. The new setup autos-scales regionally to absorb spikes, handles over 40,000 HTTPS requests per second, reduces CDN load and rebuffering for viewers, shortens time to market, lowers operational costs by paying only for needed capacity, and has delivered reliable, zero‑downtime performance for global live events.

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Erica Beavers

Head of Marketing and Partnerships