Saas Sessions With Sunil

Real-time analytics at a petabyte scale isn't just a technical challenge; it's a business survival requirement. Catherine Johnson, VP of Global Solutions Engineering at Hydrolix, joins the show to deconstruct the "impossible" architecture required to power the 2025 Super Bowl broadcast for Fox Sports. From managing 1.4 petabytes of daily log data to the brutal reality of why traditional auto-scaling fails during mission-critical events, Catherine reveals the strategic framework behind being a "Truth Teller" in the high-stakes world of Solutions Engineering.Key Takeaways1. Data Architecture as a Competitive Moat- Normalization is Non-Negotiable: At a petabyte scale, you cannot afford "dirty" data. Success requires normalizing disparate CDN logs—matching units (ms vs. s) and handling recursive URL encoding—into a single, queryable schema.- Indexing vs. Regex: Computational intensity kills performance. Strategic indexing for exact matches must replace regular expressions f