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Edwin Jones (Senior Server Engineer, Epic Games)
Location: Room 2016, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Programming
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: Intermediate
At launch, the player population of “Fall Guys” peaked at 650,000 concurrent users, which was 8-times the projected load. In this session, walk through how the game services team at Mediatonic prepared for launch, the challenges encountered with this sudden influx of users, and describe improvements made over the last few years to scale to millions of players.
We’ll provide details of our game services architecture, design philosophies and deployment workflows, examining the bottlenecks we encountered during load scaling, and describing the solutions that we deployed. We will show how to identify bottlenecks in a service architecture before or during a launch, and provide techniques that can be used to scale service workloads to meet a sudden surge in user demand.
This talk primarily targets engineering teams interested in learning about data storage designs and implementations for AAA titles with large spikes in player counts. A basic familiarity with modern server technology and software is recommended.
