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This document discusses the author's experience working at GameSpot during the annual E3 video game conference. Some key points: - The author used to work as a PHP developer at GameSpot and helped build features like user profiles and videos. - In 2006, the author convinced their boss to send them to the E3 conference to help with the large traffic from fans refreshing for updates. - GameSpot had an exclusive booth between Nintendo and Sony to showcase new consoles like the Wii and PS3. They streamed press conferences which saw extremely high traffic. - To handle the traffic, GameSpot used a large Memcached deployment with 70 application servers and 15 database servers to serve over 50 million







































































































