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Raghuram Gururajan

Author: Raghuram Gururajan

is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, where he serves as a technical advisor to startup companies building and scaling on the cloud. Based in San Francisco, he specializes in helping early-stage and growth-stage companies design scalable architectures, adopt AI/ML services, and establish cloud-native best practices that support rapid growth. His technical expertise spans cloud infrastructure, generative AI, application modernization, and cost optimization. He works hands-on with customers from architecture design through production deployment, ensuring their AWS journey translates into real business outcomes.

How bitdrift scaled to 121 million concurrent gRPC connections on Amazon CloudFront for live telemetry sporting events

When 121 million mobile devices establish persistent gRPC connections to your origin infrastructure within seconds of a live broadcast, the routing policy behind your DNS records matters far more than it does at normal traffic levels. The wrong policy can concentrate all your connections onto a single origin endpoint, turning a scaling success into an […]