webdev, architecture, node, kafkaIndia consumes cricket like no other country on earth. When Kohli walks out to bat, millions of users hit refresh simultaneously. When a wicket falls, chat rooms explode. When an opinion-trading market opens on the next ball, orders pour in at rates you'd expect from a small stock exchange.

Building a platform that holds up under that load — and makes money from it — is an interesting engineering problem. Here's how we built Cricket Winner at Xenotix Labs , a real-time cricket intelligence platform with live scores, news, and opinion trading in one app.

Three user experiences, one platform

Cricket Winner isn't a single product.…