GigaSpaces Advantage For Gaming Platforms

James Liddle
KamranYousaf
The Space Based Advantage for Online Gaming

What is GigaSpaces XAP ?

GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP)
A scale-out application server providing:
End-end scale-out middleware for Web data, messaging and business logic
In memory clustering
Unique database scalability
An SLA driven Architecture with automatic self healing
Decouples the application from the deployment environment
Supports open-source and standard development frameworks
Support major enterprise languages: Java, .NET and C++

Mission Critical Applications
Financial Services:
Algorithmic trading Market Data Risk Analysis Portfolio Analysis Bank Card Processing
Telecom:
Real-time billing, Order Management, VOIP, Location-based svs, Mobile device content
On-Line:
Gaming, Travel, Advertising/Marketing, Commerce, Consumer portals, Search engines
Defense
Real-time intelligence, Pattern Analysis

Addresses the Challenges of how to:
Scale application easily
Get faster response times
Have easier Development
Have easier Deployment
Have easier Monitoring
Achieve Near-zero Downtime

How we do it
Virtualized Web Tier
dynamic load balancing, self-healing, basic caching
Virtualized Business Tier
auto deployment, simpler development and testing
Virtualized Messaging
lower latency, higher message reliability
Virtualized Data Access
dramatically lower latency, releases the data bottleneck which is often the main scalability barrier
Virtualized Deployment
Move manual process to SLA driven deployment

Faster Response Time

Challenges of the N-Tier Architecture
Logic
Logic
Logic
Presentation
Too many network hops
Unacceptable latency
Performance
Latency
Separate fail-over strategy at each tier
Redundancy doubles network traffic
Bottlenecks are created
Latency is increased
Resiliency
Latency
Business Logic
Complexity
Latency
Scalability is not linear
Scalability management nightmare
Scalability
DAO
Latency
Expensive hardware & software purchase
Multiple skill sets
Integration and design
Cache
TCO
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The GigaSpaces Solution
Processing Unit
Single model for design, deployment and management
No integration effort
Manage data in memory
Collapse the tiers
Collocate the services
Logic
Logic

Easier Development
Integration with Spring
Allowing developers to focus on improving the game
Annotation or XML configuration your choice

Event Driven Messaging Layer

Remoting Services
Service Interface
Client:
Server:

Easier Testing
Event Driving Development
Faster testing cycle – XAP provides vastly improved unit testing, allowing a full-blown application to be tested on a single machine.
Test on the cloud – XAP’s Cloud Computing Framework allows testing large-scale environments on cloud services in minutes.
Focus on the game, not the middleware – XAP separates middleware from business logic and takes care of all middleware interactions

Easier Deployment
Specify once how many machines are required by the application services and any other software or hardware dependencies.
Subsequently, deploy services automatically to the grid of machines, at the push of a button.
XAP continuously monitors the deployment and ensures that all dependencies are fulfilled.
Provision more machines to priority services, fully automatically.

Deployment Virtualization

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Transaction Flow in XAP’s SBA
Submit
Order
Notify
Completion
Validate
Check/match
Execute order
Processing Unit
Validate
Check
Perform Query
Execute Order
Persist for Compliance & Reporting purposes:
Collocation of data, messaging and services in memory:
Minimum Latency (no network hops)
Maximum Throughput
Unparalleled End-To-End Transaction Performance
- Storing State- Register Orders- etc.

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Backup
SLA Driven Container
Processing Unit
Maintaining Resiliency using XAP’s SBA
Single, built-in failover/redundancy
Fewer points of failure
Automated SLA driven failover/redundancy mechanism
Continuous High Availability

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Processing Unit
Scaling Out and Managing XAP’s SBA
Backup
Backup
Write Once Scale Anywhere:
Near linear scalability
Single monitoring and management engine
Automated, SLA-Driven deployment and management
Scaling policy, System requirements, Space cluster topology

Scalability

Auto Scale Out

Smooth Handling of Peak Loads
When an affiliate’s ad campaign hits big, or a major sporting event draws crowds of betters, GigaSpaces XAP makes sure your game handles the additional load without crashing or even slowing down
Detects high loads and automatically scales out your application before it breaches its service level agreement (SLA).
Automatically deploys more instances of the application on additional machines, when the existing machines approach critical levels of CPU, memory, or other indicators you define.
User requests are transparently routed to the new machines – while the game continues.

Continuous Availability
Hot-swap hardware maintenance – if a machine needs service, XAP can relocate live application instances to a different machine, with no service interruption.
Automatic self healing – when your system’s SLA is compromised, XAP’s Service Manager immediately raises a new backup and loads it with live data, with no human intervention.
Real-time game version upgrades – XAP can upgrade your application to a new version automatically, with no downtime, assuming no changes to data model.

Monitoring
No need to manually hunt down middleware issues
XAP monitors your entire system end-to-end, from the load balancer through to the messaging, business logic services and data.
Track down problems to a particular service or application instance using the central management UI.

Ready For the Cloud
XAP provides tight integration with cloud infrastructure services like Amazon EC2, with a full set of cloud tools
Today – outsource testing and non-essential services to the cloud.
Tomorrow – run production applications on the cloud and resell cloud services to your customers, with no migration effort.

Deploying on the Cloud
Multi Tenant Application Provisioning
Application Deployment Configuration
3 - Manage
1- Install
2 - Deploy
Provision
IaaS Provider (EC2, GoGrid, VMWhere, Citrix,..)
Application
Repository
App A
App B

Built-in Machine profiles (EC2)
Cluster Manager
Admin-Ui
Each machine can be assigned with
64/32 S,M,L,XL Images individually
Each machine dynamically install software packages
GSM responsible for deploying application packages to GSC machine
GSM Machine
UI Machine
Web
Jmeter
IMDG
Web
Tomcat
WWW
Mirror
IMDG
Web
Comp-
Node
IMDG
Web
Comp-Nodes
LB Machine
Database Machine
Ext-Machine
GSC Machines

Online OMS: Old System

Online OMS: SBA Enabled

GigaSpaces Customers
100+ direct enterprise customers, 2000+ embedded deployments
A Scale-Out Application Server ideally suited for today’s Enterprise Environments and ISV’s building Grid, SaaS and Cloud enabled offerings
Cloud tools and packaging Public Cloud providers (i.e. EC2, Flexiscale, GoGrid, Joyent and more).

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