Riak: Distributed Storage for Games You Don't Have to Worry About

Presented at Gamelab 2013 in Barcelona

Transcript

1. Distributed storage for games
   you don’t have to worry about
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   (c) 2013 Basho Technologies
   All rights reserved.
   Riak
   

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2. Player Select
   Tom Santero
   tsantero
   on github
   on twitter
   @basho.com
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3. Basho Technologies
   we make riak...
   

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4. I <3 video games
   

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5. video games have changed
   

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6. When I was a kid...
   

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7. Kids Today...
   

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8. Evolution of games largely characterized by
   rapid development of processing technology
   

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9. What happened?
   

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10. Online / multiplayer
    gaming experiences
    

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11. meanwhile...
    

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12. Amazon.com
    

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14. Riak
    

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15. masterless, distributed
    key/value datastore
    

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16. deployed as a
    cluster
    of nodes
    

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17. key / value
    

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18. map/reduce engine
    Full-text search
    secondary indexes
    

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19. scale
    

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20. Global Availability
    

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21. Used by...
    and more...
    

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22. Why?
    

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23. Users vote for
    your games with:
    their time
    their money
    Downloads
    recommendations
    

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25. Fault Tolerance
    

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26. High Write Throughput
    

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27. Cost of operations
    predictable latency
    easy to scale
    small teams
    

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28. SHIP IT!
    Did you test the code?
    

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29. Did you test the Infrastructure?
    

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30. Thousands  of  players  across  the  world  are  playing  and  
    having  a  good  experience  –  in  fact,  more  than  700,000  
    cities  have  been  built  by  our  players  in  just  24  hours.  
    But  many  are  experiencing  server  instability  and  
    consequently,  the  rollout  in  North  America  has  been  
    challenging.  It's  also  now  evident  that  players  across  
    Europe  and  Asia  are  experiencing  the  same  frustration.  
    Our  priority  now  is  to  quickly  and  dramatically  increase  
    the  number  and  stability  of  our  servers  and,  with  that,  
    the  number  of  players  who  can  simultaneously  access  the  
    game.  We  added  servers  today,  and  there  will  be  several  
    more  added  over  the  weekend.  We're  working  as  hard  as  
    possible  to  make  sure  everyone  gets  to  experience  the  
    amazing  game  we  built  in  SimCity.
    

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31. NOT
    Acceptable
    

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32. Build a cross-platform
    gaming experience
    with Riak
    

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33. Authentication
    and profiles
    key value
    oauth JSON/XML/enc
    uuid JSON/XML/enc
    email JSON/XML/enc
    } device_id
    last_session
    other_pointers
    

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34. Authentication
    and profiles
    key value
    oauth JSON/XML/enc
    uuid JSON/XML/enc
    email JSON/XML/enc
    } device_id
    last_session
    other_pointers
    Cross Platform!
    

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35. Session and
    game state
    key value
    user riak
    sessionid JSON/XML/enc
    uuid JSON/XML/enc
    PUT sessions/sessionID
    GET sessions/sessionID
    

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36. Session and
    game state
    key value
    user riak
    connection
    sessionid JSON/XML/enc
    uuid JSON/XML/enc
    session created
    PUT sessions/sessionID
    GET sessions/sessionID
    

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37. Session and
    game state
    key value
    user riak
    connection
    save progress
    sessionid JSON/XML/enc
    uuid JSON/XML/enc
    session created
    PUT sessions/sessionID
    GET sessions/sessionID
    

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38. Session and
    game state
    key value
    user riak
    connection
    save progress
    sessionid JSON/XML/enc
    uuid JSON/XML/enc
    X
    terminate conn
    session created
    PUT sessions/sessionID
    GET sessions/sessionID
    

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39. Session and
    game state
    key value
    user riak
    connection
    save progress
    sessionid JSON/XML/enc
    uuid JSON/XML/enc
    X
    terminate conn
    reconnect
    session created
    session created
    ...
    PUT sessions/sessionID
    GET sessions/sessionID
    

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40. user created
    content
    avatars
    images
    etc...
    

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41. In-Game purchases
    game inventory
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    y
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    n
    t
    transaction log
    player’s inventory
    game
    

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42. Social Graphs
    Player 1 is friends with Player 2
    Player 3
    Player 2 is friends with Player 3
    player 4
    player 6
    via secondary index
    CRDT
    

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43. Notification Systems
    event based messages
    grab via 2i or m/r
    asynchronous delivery
    via:
    urbanairship
    kafka / Rabbitmq
    apple/android servers
    

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44. Support rapid growth
    

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45. in-game statistics
    A/B testing
    in-game messaging
    

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46. Level 1
    complete
    

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47. To proceed to
    Level 2
    come visit our booth
    

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48. Questions?
    tsantero
    on github
    on twitter
    @basho.com
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