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Scaling APIs to Millions of Requests

How to handle cricket API traffic spikes during World Cup and IPL matches.

Capacity planning

Estimate peak concurrent users × poll frequency × matches. Multiply by safety factor of 3. Choose RapidAPI plan accordingly.

Horizontal scale stateless API workers. Redis cluster for cache. CDN for static. Queue for async processing.

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