Akash SaxenaFailure Engineering — API EditionLong form notes on a past key note about strategies to harden API’s at scaleSep 20Sep 20
Akash SaxenaBe MemorableSpeech made on Aug 5 2024 to the second intake batch of Scaler School of Technology(SST) in Bangalore. The sole message is to “Be…Aug 5Aug 5
Akash SaxenaSRE PlaybookYour platform doesn’t need you to be a helicopter, free it, let it be independent. Building blocks of how to raise your SRE game.Oct 30, 2023Oct 30, 2023
Akash Saxenainlast9Observability — That Last 9TL;DR: A stitch in time, saves 9. A discussion on the key blocks of observability.Sep 30, 2022Sep 30, 2022
Akash SaxenaValue Streams — Notes on Planning with OKR’sTL;DR: Planning is hard, what is helping lately is to zero down on identifying value streams, ascribing a metric and then asking…Jul 14, 20221Jul 14, 20221
Akash SaxenaCricket & Agile Software DeliveryTldr; Ever since the Indian men’s cricket team pulled off an improbable, once in a generation heist, I couldn’t help but find parallels to…Feb 9, 2021Feb 9, 2021
Akash SaxenainDisney+ HotstarScaling the Hotstar Platform for 50MTL;DR; Hotstar is the home of Indian cricket and scale. However, it’s not rocket science, we did use some rocket metaphors! While we…Oct 1, 20191Oct 1, 20191
Akash SaxenainDisney+ HotstarBig Million Day — 5.5M Peak ConcurrencyThe Hotstar team celebrated an amazing milestone on Apr 10, 2018. The game was CSK v/s KKR and the buzz in our control room was palpable…Apr 12, 2018Apr 12, 2018
Akash SaxenainDisney+ HotstarMachine Learning at Hotstar — Keynote Amazon AI Conclave Dec 2017Mar 16, 2018Mar 16, 2018
