Presentation material during the AWS Meetup hosted by Rovio.

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Rovio’s Game Technology
Infrastructure In The Cloud
Era
Paul Winston Villacorta
Senior Cloud Engineer, Cloud Operations
Rovio Entertainment

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Rovio uses AWS for
allowing it’s 120M+ global
users to play Angry Birds
games and watch Angry
Birds Toons series.

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6BTOONS
VIDEO VIEWS
480MGAME DOWNLOADS
IN 2015
2,5BYOUTUBE
VIEWS
26MFACEBOOK
FOLLOWERS
3BGAME
DOWNLOADS
SINCE 2009
ROVIO IN
NUMBERS
OVER

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200+
Database
Instances
60+
Services
700 - 2000
Running
Instances
{API}
45000+
API Requests
per second
3B
Analytics
Processed
every day

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Hybrid
Cloud
Private
Cloud
Public
Cloud
3rd Party Managed
Private Cloud

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Private Cloud Public Cloud

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Rovio’s Infrastructure is 100% cloud-
native from the beginning.

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EXTERNAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
SERVICES
INTERNAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
MICROSERVICES SERVICES MICROSERVICES
DATABASE TIER
ORCHESTRATION / AUTOMATION LOGIC
CACHING
COMPONENTS
STORAGE
MONITORING
LOGCOLLECTION
INTERNALDNS
OPERATIONAL JOB SCHEDULER

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THE CLOUDIT’S JUST SOMEONE ELSE’S
COMPUTER

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Why?
•Reduced Cost
•Flexibility
•Stability
•Scalability
•Collaboration
•Mobility
•Security
•Wecandoitlity

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AWS
SERVICESPIECES OF SERVICES WE PIPED
TOGETHER

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We are heavy in …
• Compute Services
• Storage Services
• Database Services
• Networking Services
• Management Services
• Security Services
• Analytics Services
CloudFront Glacier
Lambda
ElastiCache RDSCloudWatch
ConfigElasticsearch
NAT Gateway
Elastic
Transcoder
SES
EC2 VPC EMR
Redshift IAM
S3

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DEPLOYME
NTWORKS PERFECTLY IN DEV

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Philosophy
• Simplicity
• Practicality
• Cost efficiency

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Deployment Goals
• Automated
• Seamless
• Rollback Mechanism

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Deployment Goals
Automated
• Minimizes the deployment cycle time
• Provides consistencies across environment
• Time and effort are valuable
• Must have for small teams

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Deployment Goals
Seamless
• Zero downtime is ambitious but we made it still ;)
• A/B Switch works well for us
• It’s a bit slow but its sure and well tested
• Per node replacement
• Blue/Green Deployment
• Big services
• Capacity planning is needed

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Deployment Goals
Rollback Mechanism
• Instant rollback
• Per node or cluster wide approach

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Deployment Workflow
GITHUB
CI / BUILD
SERVER
NFS
PACKAGES
REPOSITORY
ORCHESTRATION SERVER
INSTANCE/S
INSTANCE/SINSTANCE/S
INTERNAL
DNS
MONITORING
LOG
COLLECTION
1
TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPER / OPS
2
3
4
5
5
6
7
8
3
5

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CHALLENG
ESYOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN’T
HIDE

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Challenges
• Simplifying complexity
• Security
• Efficiency and Performance
• Bloated code base
• SPOF – development / operational side
• Accountability

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Approach
• Re-architecting
• Some abstractions needed
• Convert it to a composable software system
• Work Offloading
• Use software that can do operational job like Rundeck
• Automated Tests
• Never underestimate this one ;)

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Our team
• Cloud operations totals 4
• Platform totals about 40
• “DevOps” culture
• 24/7 on-call

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HIRINGhttp://tinyurl.com/seniorcloudengine
er
http://tinyurl.com/cloudengineer

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