Globo.com Delivers Live Video Streaming to 500,000+ Viewers with NGINX Achieving 25x Performance Over Previous Infrastructure Situation In 2012, Globo.com, the number one media and entertainment portal in Brazil, had over a million visitors a day and was experiencing unprecedented growth in its online viewership. As the online branch of the country’s top television brand Grupo Globo, Globo.com is responsible for online distribution of the media company’s news, sports, and entertainment to a massive, and yet still fast-growing, audience. Visitors come to Globo.com not just to catch up on news and current events articles, but to enjoy its great video content, with many Globo news reports, TV shows, and sports events broadcast online. These users expect an easy-to-use, high-quality online viewing experience that rivals that of traditional television. The sheer amount of traffic Globo.com had to handle made [ more… ]