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Designing High Scale Sports APIs

Architecture patterns for sports apps serving millions of requests during peak matches.

Architecture layers

CDN for static assets. API gateway with rate limiting. Redis cache cluster. Worker pool for API polling. Message queue for event distribution.

Pre-warm cache before major matches. Auto-scale workers on schedule. Load test with 3x expected peak traffic.

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