Rise of RIOT games from structured to unstructured.

1. RASHID ANSARI
MTECH(ACDS)
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2. RIOT GAMES
 It was founded in 2006 by Brendon Beck and Marc Merrill.
 In 2009, released its first game League of Legends.
 This game become the most played PC game in the world.
 Players are the foundation of RIOT Games.
 Its headquarter in Los Angeles and 23 offices worldwide.

3. START-UP PHASE
 Had a single, dedicated MySQL instance for the DW.
 Data was ETL’d from production slaves into this instance.
 Queries were run in MYSQL.
 Reporting was done in EXCEL.
 All ETLs, queries and reporting were done by one person

4. GROWTH

5. BREAKING POINT
 Data warehouse reached a breaking point.
 24 hours of data took 24.5 hours to ETL
 Very difficult to handle
 Gaming customers by resolving problems
 Old system wasn’t designed to operate current level of players.
 Increase Downtime.
It Needed to change

6. UPGRADING
 To upgrade the software infrastructure to Hadoop
 Cloud-based data warehouse
 End-to-end automated software development pipeline.

7. HADOOP
Hadoop has a number of great qualities
 Cost effective
 Scalable
 Open Source
 Execute quickly

8. UPDATED
 Took 3 months to build.
 Now, Company roll out software updates went from taking two weeks to less than
ten minutes.
 Removed most of the software downtime.
 Scalable

9. CHALLENGES
 Significant portion of software runs directly on players’ machines.
 Understand the performance, reliability and stability to improve player experience.
 Game is ALIVE.
 Global
 PC Variability

10. ARCHITECTURE

11. HADOOP TOOLS
 Honu: Streaming log collection and event processing pipeline
 Platfora: BI analysis and visualization
 Oozie: Workflow job scheduler
 Hive: Data warehouse and queries
Riot Games used Honu as a key technology in its software development pipeline.

12. HONU PIPELINE

14. THAKYOU