Inside look at Yahoo’s fantasy football platform: How tech supports traffic spikes and live scoring
[Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every week.] TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: Each Sunday for the past four months, millions of fantasy football users fired up their Yahoo apps and browsers, setting lineups and checking their team scores. It takes a ton of technology to ensure that Yahoo’s tech platforms can withstand huge spikes in traffic and provide constant live scoring updates. For this week’s sports tech newsletter, GeekWire caught up with EJ Campbell, a senior director of engineering for Yahoo Fantasy Sports, to learn more… Read More