Into the VoidTim Lossen / @tlossen

Wooga, Berlin

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social games

challenges?

a) high traffic

! million users

! million usersper day

"# million visitsper day

#$$$ req/s(peak)

b) tons of data

%$ million users(total)

what is the best database?

it depends!

game !

game "

game #

hot data needs to be in memory.

maybe ... we need no database?

game $

game !%

“Hetzner EX !S is "# times faster than m$.small and

has %& GB of Ram.” ⎯ Carl Mercier

☛ blog.carlmercier.com/2012/01/05/ec2-is-basically-one-big-ripoff/

recap

➊ don’t forget S&

➋ check out JRuby

➌ challenge your assumptions

Questions?

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creditsSweetie!"#☛ flickr.com/photos/$"#"%&'$@N(&/$$!"''%$$$/

Fygget☛ flickr.com/photos/fyggy/)!*(($$&$%/

Robert Wallace☛ flickr.com/photos/robwallace/!%'%*&&&$/