Sports Betting Evolution

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A betting platform's evolution from a PHP/Delphi monolith to microservices is described, migrating frontend, middleware, and core in stages so legacy users stay on the old stack while new users use the new one. Engineering choices include Aerospike as the wallet store for atomic high‑load balances, Kafka for odds distribution (reducing stale prices from ~20% to ~2%), and .NET Core microservices on Kubernetes for fast autoscaling, with a target of 1 million calculations in 5 seconds and peak loads around 3.5k bets/min and 5k transactions/min.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:52Product and tech evolution
3. 10:24Monolith to microservices
4. 16:50Tech stack and architecture
5. 21:50High-load architecture
6. 27:12Cloud scaling
7. 30:08Migration and future plans
8. 44:00Q&A

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