Tim Lossen discusses the challenges of building social games at Wooga including high traffic of 2 million users and 15 million visits per day, and storing large amounts of user data for their 40 million total users. He notes that hot game data needs fast access and questions whether a database is even needed. Lossen also provides recommendations on using Amazon S3 for storage, the JRuby programming language, and challenging assumptions in their systems.

1. Into the Void
Tim Lossen / @tlossen
Wooga, Berlin
2012-05-30

2. social games

4. challenges?

6. a) high traffic

7. 2 million users

8. 2 million users
per day

9. 15 million visits
per day

10. 5000 req/s
(peak)

12. b) tons of data

13. 40 million users
(total)

14. what is the best
database?

15. it depends!

17. game 1

18. game 3

19. game 4

22. hot data needs to
be in memory.

23. maybe ... we need
no database?

29. game 6

30. game 10

31. “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/

32. recap

33. ➊ don’t forget S3

34. ➋ check out JRuby

35. ➌ challenge your
assumptions

36. Questions?

41. ☛ wooga.com/jobs

42. credits
Sweetie187
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Fygget
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Robert Wallace
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