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Christopher Shankland (CTO, Odyssey Interactive)
Location: Room 2005, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Programming
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: All
Launch day for an online game is a very exciting time, but often not in a good way for the online or service engineering team. Odyssey Interactive's debut title, Omega Strikers, a competitive online sports-combat game launched on 7 platforms with a services team of 3 reaching hundreds of thousands of players on day 1 with no outages. This session explores the core role that Observability played in making this 'boring launch' the expected outcome. An introduction to what Observability is, some basics of the tech that makes it work, and in-depth examples of how it provides crucial focus and context in high pressure situations will be presented. Don't be scared of launch day again!
Attendees will leave with a general understanding of observability and the value it provides by reviewing real world scenarios from the development, release, and live-service operation of Omega Strikers.
This session is an introduction and does not require any previous knowledge or prerequisites. Code snippets will be shown for illustrative purposes only and will be fully explained.
