Into the Void Tim Lossen / @tlossen Wooga, Berlin 2012-05-30
social games
challenges?
a) high traffic
2 million users
2 million users per day
15 million visits per day
5000 req/s (peak)
b) tons of data
40 million users (total)
what is the best database?
it depends!
game 1
game 3
game 4
hot data needs to be in memory.
maybe ... we need no database?
game 6
game 10
“Hetzner EX 4S is 58 times faster than m1.small and has 32 GB of Ram.” ⎯ Carl Mercier ☛ blog.carlmercier.com/2012/01/05/ ec2-is-basically-one-big-ripoff/