In this session, learn how media company Turner Broadcasting delivers real-time sports scores to high-profile sites like the NCAA and PGA using Amazon MQ. Gain a deeper understanding of how Turner migrated from their on-premises message broker to Amazon MQ, and was able to preserve the low-latency messaging expected by their customers. Expect to leave with insights on the migration process, including the surprisingly fast timelines, and the benefits of a managed message broker service.

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Migrating Real-Time Sports Scores to
the Cloud via Low-Latency Messaging
Trevor Dyck
Principal Product Manager
Amazon Web Services
A P I 2 0 2
Ben Plummer
Senior Director
Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc.

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Agenda
Migrating to the cloud
Introduction to Amazon MQ
Migrating Turner’s Live Sports Scoring to Amazon MQ

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Migrating to the cloud is all about customers
Create
agility
Empower
teams
Invent and
innovate
Happier
customers

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Common barriers to migrating to the cloud
Too much time is spent
on things that don’t
deliver business value
You have to integrate
with your existing set of
applications

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A managed message
broker service for
Apache ActiveMQ
that makes it easy to set
up and operate message
brokers in the cloud
What is Amazon MQ?

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Compatible with industry-standard APIs and protocols
Accelerate migration
JMS
AMQP
NMS
MQTT
STOMP
WebSocket

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High availability and durability
Availability Zone Availability Zone
Replicated
Message Store
Active
Broker
Standby
Broker

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Encryption in transit (TLS)
Encryption at rest
VPC enabled
Security groups
Queue/topic authentication
and authorization
Secure

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Amazon
CloudWatch
metrics & logs
AWS service integration simplifies
management
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudFormation
Tagging

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Broker utilization metrics
Queue and topic metrics
Alarms & notifications
CloudWatch logs
Monitor with Amazon CloudWatch

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Rich messaging features with ActiveMQ
Local & distributed
transactions (XA)
Transient &
persistent
messaging
Queues & topics
(with FIFO)
Message filtering
Composite & virtual
destinations
Request/reply
Scheduled messages
Large message size
and retention

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Low latency with Amazon MQ
Long-lived connections between the broker and the app
leads to low latency messaging (single-digit msec)
Latency: the time between publishing
a message and consuming it

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• Recommended for
born-in-the-cloud apps
• Simple APIs
• Unlimited throughput
• Pay per request
• Recommended for
application migration
• API-compatible
• Feature-rich
• Low latency
• Pay per hour and per GB
Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, or Amazon MQ?

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Introduction
Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc., a
WarnerMedia Company
Sports, news, and entertainment media
company
Leads team that provides real-time live
scoring for news and sports properties

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The scoring scale challenge
49 Sports
182,138 Games
16,619 Teams
99,306 Athletes
1,556 Arenas
255 Countries
153 Leagues
19 Time zones
30 Tech partners
66 Apps

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Delivering live scores to your device

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Live data industry requirements
Scale via
automation
Data
providers
Expectation
is perfection
Speed
wins
Custom
solutions
Depth & breadth
Drive
Engagement

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Why Amazon MQ
Scale via
automation
Data
providers
Expectation
is perfection
Speed
wins
Custom
solutions
Depth & breadth
Drive
Engagement
Latency
Durability
FIFO
Durability
Latency
Monitoring
Durability

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Architecture
Monitor
Amazon Aurora
Cluster
Amazon
MQ
Compare
UP Push Alert
Receive Publish Distribute
Origin CDN
Feed
Providers Apps
Third
Party
Amazon
MQ
Amazon
MQ
Amazon
MQ

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• Talent pool
• Get
creative
Staffing
• Tools
• Incentives
Learning
• Ownership
• Teamwork
Culture
AWS conversion process
0-3 Months 3-6 Months 6-12 Months

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Delivery comparison metrics
Brand Legacy AWS Savings % Savings
ELEAGUE 7.42 sec 3.11 sec 4.31 sec 58%
PGA 10.77 sec 24.60 sec -13.83 sec -128%
B/R (NBA) 0.84 sec 1.36 sec 0.52 sec 38%
B/R (NFL) 0.85 sec 0.15 sec 0.70 sec 82%
B/R (NCAABB) 0.25 sec 0.11 sec 0.14 sec 56%
B/R (Soccer) 0.70sec 0.55 sec 0.15 sec 21%
B/R (Rugby) 2.07 sec 2.09 sec -0.02 sec -1%
B/R (MLB) 0.62 sec 0.50 sec 0.12 sec 19%
Average 46%

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US East (Virginia)
US East (Ohio)
US West (Oregon)
US West (N. California)
EU (Ireland)
EU (Frankfurt)
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
Amazon MQ availability

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Builders Session:
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Learn more
https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq

28. Thank you!
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Ben Plummer
Ben.Plummer@turner.com
www.linkedin.com/in/beplummer
Trevor Dyck
@trevor_d_
www.linkedin.com/in/trevordyck

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