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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India – Remember the onset of the COVID pandemic lockdowns, when everyone suddenly needed digital books at once? Kitaboo sure does. Hurix Digital’s popular eBook platform went from handling its usual traffic to managing 40 times more users practically overnight. And they kept everything running smoothly for all 10 million users worldwide.
The story starts with the COVID-19 crisis. Schools closed. Libraries shut down. Students needed textbooks. Readers wanted novels. Everyone turned to digital books at the same time. Kitaboo saw traffic from the United States alone jump 40-fold. Europe piled on, too.
“Picture millions of students logging in for their morning classes, all needing their textbooks right now,” explained Nitesh Kumar, Vice President and Strategic Business Unit Head – Cloud Services, Hurix Digital. “We had to rethink how Kitaboo worked under the hood completely. Our engineers built systems that could grow on demand, like adding extra lanes to a highway during rush hour. We spread the traffic load so that no single server got crushed. We even rebuilt how the platform stores and retrieves data.”
Hurix Digital’s team attacked the problem from three angles. First came auto-scaling, teaching the platform to grow and shrink based on actual demand. Rush hour needs more resources? They appear automatically. Quiet Sunday afternoon? Scale back and save costs. Next, they rebuilt the load balancing system to spread users evenly across servers, like a smart traffic controller, preventing jams. Finally, database optimization made everything faster by reorganizing how data gets stored and retrieved.
The numbers tell the success story better than any explanation. Kitaboo now handles 40 times its original traffic without breaking a sweat. Pages load 30% faster even during peak times. Students get their books when they need them. Teachers run classes without “platform unavailable” messages.
The whole experience of upscaling the cloud platform taught valuable lessons about building for the unexpected. What seemed like adequate infrastructure crumbled when the world changed overnight. But smart engineering and quick thinking turned a crisis into an opportunity to build something better.
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About Hurix Digital
Hurix Digital is transforming how digital content is experienced globally. With 25+ years of experience as an innovator of digital publishing technology, Hurix Digital powers business agility for leading publishers and corporate organizations globally with our mobility and digital content solutions. More than 10 million users across 25+ countries in 20+ languages experience Hurix Digital every day.
Hurix Digital works with customers worldwide to design & develop digital learning & content solutions for the 21st-century learner. An end-to-end digital content solution provider, they create, publish, and distribute engaging digital content across traditional and newer mobile platforms, formats, and devices. They offer a wide range of eLearning services and technology solutions, making them the ideal destination from design to delivery of digital content.
About KITABOO
Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform that allows publishers, institutions, training companies, and corporate organizations to create-publish-distribute interactive mobile-ready content. A built-in powerful analytics engine provides content analytics that helps you make accurate decisions. KITABOO offers a white label solution with client-branded Reader Apps across multiple devices and platforms.
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