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Tech goals for FIFA’s staging of the World Cup - how Globant plans to score

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When the FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off today, Globant will be responsible for the sporting event’s user experience as billions of people around the world cheer their teams on.

To continue to improve the user experience has required enhancements to the streaming platform and the mobile app. Since 2022 Globant has been working on all this for FIFA to improve engagement, accessibility and modernise the technology stack. At its NXT conference, it provided a peek behind the scenes to explain what it has been doing.

Cloud systems that scale for a vertical cliff of demand

The first problem Globant had to tackle was building a platform, FIFA+, for so many concurrent users engaging simultaneously in real-time. Technical Director Matteo Freddi explains how after a career working in high-scale distributed systems, he had to reconsider what he knew, which was based largely on video on demand, an area that has...

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