Building scalable backends for casual games

This was a short presentation I did at a Bangkok Scalability Meetup.
The first part of the talk is recommendations to a young game studio in need of a backend for their casual game. The second part is more or less the history of the backend used in Pocket PlayLab's game Juice Cubes and what has changed since then.

Transcript

1. CASUAL GAMES SCALABLE BUILDING BACKENDS FOR
2. Bo Stendal Sørensen! CTO, Pocket PlayLab
5. CASUAL GAME SCALABLE BUILDING A BACKEND FOR A
6. (Examples of casual games in the background)
7. BUY BUILD
8. -BOHVBHF
9. 36#:
10. 36#:
11. /PEFKT
12. /PEFKT
13. (P
14. (P
15. %#
16. .POHP
17. Architecture
18. THINK! (about the game)
20. Horizontal Vertical
23. Rails! MySQL
24. SCALE?
25. Servers
26. DATA
27. TEST
28. Denormalize
29. Caching
30. Precompute
31. NOW WHAT?!?!
32. SHARDING! or ! OTHER DB?
33. 50/50
34. Cassandra
36. Tech-debt
37. Load-testing
38. Build our! own stack
39. KISS
40. People
42. More games!
43. Microservices
44. Geo-availability