This document discusses GigaSpaces XAP, an in-memory data grid platform that provides scalability and high availability for online gaming applications. It addresses challenges like slow response times, difficult development and deployment, and downtime. Key features include clustering data and services in memory across nodes, automatic scaling of nodes under load, easy integration with frameworks like Spring, and deployment to public clouds. Customers include financial, telecom, and gaming companies building mission critical, low latency applications.

1. James Liddle KamranYousaf The Space Based Advantage for Online Gaming

2. What is GigaSpaces XAP ?

4. End-end scale-out middleware for Web data, messaging and business logic

5. In memory clustering

6. Unique database scalability

7. An SLA driven Architecture with automatic self healing

8. Decouples the application from the deployment environment

9. Supports open-source and standard development frameworks

11. 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

12. 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

13. Faster Response Time

16. Redundancy doubles network traffic

17. Bottlenecks are created

20. Multiple skill sets

21. Integration and designCache TCO 8

23. No integration effort

24. Manage data in memory

25. Collapse the tiers

26. Collocate the servicesLogic Logic

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

28. Event Driven Messaging Layer

30. Client:

32. 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.

33. Deployment Virtualization

35. Minimum Latency (no network hops)

36. Maximum Throughput

37. Unparalleled End-To-End Transaction Performance- Storing State- Register Orders- etc.

39. Fewer points of failure

40. Automated SLA driven failover/redundancy mechanism

42. Near linear scalability

43. Single monitoring and management engine

44. Automated, SLA-Driven deployment and management

46. Auto Scale Out

47. 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.

48. 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.

49. 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.

50. 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.

51. 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

53. 64/32 S,M,L,XL Images individually

54. Each machine dynamically install software packages

55. GSM responsible for deploying application packages to GSC machineGSM 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

56. Online OMS: Old System

57. Online OMS: SBA Enabled

59. A Scale-Out Application Server ideally suited for today’s Enterprise Environments and ISV’s building Grid, SaaS and Cloud enabled offerings

60. Cloud tools and packaging Public Cloud providers (i.e. EC2, Flexiscale, GoGrid, Joyent and more).