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
Akash SaxenainDisney+ HotstarHotstar : Google Play Most Entertaining App 2017It’s always special to be recognized. We’re over the moon about being recognized by Google as Google Play Best Of 2017 (Most Entertaining)…Dec 15, 20172Dec 15, 20172