Backend For Frontend ----Making Hotstar Zip!

Hotstar: client application that are faster to load are a delight. at hotstar , we re using a pattern we call BackendForFrontend (BFF).to improve our customer journey. this is our journey and the decision we made along the way.

Hotstar is the home of indian cricket and this means that we must align our platform to serve the million of cricket fans who throng to our platform to catch the action. as our service mature, we became acutely aware of all the aggregation that our clients had to do, time had to do, time  the number of our clients, today we're around 13 clients and adding more all the time.

All this amounts to duplicating behaviour, resiliency and metrics repeatedly, which is a lot of wasted cycles. this was one of the prime drivers when we started to review what we could do differently in our goal of improving client load time.