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How do you really architect a game that can handle 5, 6, or 7 million daily active users? Learn about the scalability challenges that EA had to overcome for The Simpsons: Tapped Out. Hear how EA had to redesign their MySQL-based database layer on the fly, migrating over to Amazon DynamoDB, while keeping the game running. See how EA added AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Auto Scaling to simplify their deployments, while also lowering costs by enabling them to respond to changing player counts. EA shows how they switched from sticky sessions to Amazon ElastiCache, solving player disconnects and allowing further scaling out. Finally, EA shares some interesting statistics about The Simpsons: Tapped Out, as well as their overall learnings about how best to develop, deploy, and monitor a game on AWS.
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November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas, NV
Chris Gallinaro and Colin Shirley, Electronic Arts
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“I'd be mortified if someone ever made a lousy product with the
Simpson name on it.”
- Lisa Simpson
“I can't promise I'll try, but I'll try to try.”
- Bart Simpson
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Problem #1: Complex deployments
Problem #2: No auto-scaling
Problem #3: Expensive database
cluster
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Key concept: temporarily store
access code on both sides
Amazon
Recall: previous access code
is stored on both sides
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Amazon
$$$$
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MySQL DynamoDB
Game server
MySQL DynamoDB
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MySQL DynamoDB
Game server
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manual increase
manual increase
Manual provisioning level
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x3 availability zones
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Scale Up
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Problem #1: Complex deployments
Easy deployments with Beanstalk
Problem #2: No auto-scaling
Auto-scaling on every component
Problem #3: Expensive database
cluster
Cost-effective DynamoDB
• Game team has full control– One-man deployments
– One-man incident investigations
• AWS always improving
http://bit.ly/awsevals
"Now for my favorite part of the show....What does that say? Talk to
the audience! Ugghhh, this is always death...”
