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Channel 2 News mobile app in Israel streams breaking news with Google Cloud Platform
Monday, October 13, 2014
Israel is a country in which life is rarely dull. Many Israelis read or listen to the news several times a day, often from leading broadcaster Channel 2 News. Channel 2 has responded with the development of a mobile app, to which it continuously streams its news broadcasts. In November 2012, events in Israel led to a peak in app usage. This led to availability issues, which persisted despite servers being added during the crisis.
To cope with such unexpected peaks in traffic, Channel 2 News decided to migrate the infrastructure for its mobile app to Google Cloud Platform. To find out more about the process and the results of the migration, read the case study
here
.
-Posted by Ori Weinroth, Product Marketing Manager
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