Evolving Gaming Industry: Build Fast-Growing Games with Microservices Architecture, Global Deployment and Modern Database Strategy 進化中的遊戲產業：以微服務架構、全球布局與現代化資料庫策略來打造高成長遊戲 Level: 200, 中文演講 講師: Pahud Hsieh, Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS & Taco Chen, CEO & Producer, Fourdesire 全世界的遊戲業者會選擇在不同的裝置、平台推出具有不同特色的遊戲。不過，遊戲業常常遇到的共同重要難題包含：如何為全球各地區玩家提供低延遲順暢的遊戲體驗、如何打造有彈性、能抵禦攻擊的架構，以及如何有效率地儲存大量的資料並藉分析找出更多價值。此次分享中，我們會分享目前Gaming產業的趨勢、適用於Gaming產業的AWS服務、微服務(Microservices)架構、全球布局方案以及現代化的資料庫使用策略。同時，AWS此次也特別邀請到多次獲德國紅點設計、 App Store 與 Google Play 年度最佳應用程式等多項獎項肯定，打造Walkr(口袋裡的銀河冒險)、Fortune City(記帳城市)、Plant Nanny(植物保母)的團隊 - Fourdesire，來分享他們如何使用AWS打造靈活的微服務(Microservices)架構、進行全球化部署、以及有效率地儲存策略來持續創新並服務累積超過2000萬的使用者。 聯繫銷售: https://aws.amazon.com/tw/contact-us/ 與銷售線上聊天: https://pages.awscloud.com/tw-hkt-sales-chat.html

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進化中的遊戲產業：
以微服務架構、全球布局與現代化
資料庫策略來打造高成長遊戲
Pahud Hsieh
Specialist Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
2 0 1 9 A W S T a i p e i S u m m i t – I n d u s t r y T r a c k - G a m i n g
Taco Chen
CEO & Producer
Fourdesire

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Agenda
Part A: Pahud Hsieh – AWS Solutions Architect
- Global Gaming Overview
- Common challenges for gaming
- Challenge 1: From Monolithic to Microservices
- Challenge 2: Global Footprints
- Challenge 3: Modern Database Strategy
Part B: Taco Chen – Fourdesire’s CEO and Producer
- Microservices and Modularization
- Global Deployment and Data Visualization
- Database Strategy
- Future Challenges

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AWS中国（北京）区域由光环新网运营
Game Builders
Game Producer
Art Design
Planning Technology
Quality Test
CG
Music
Game
Developme
nt
Game
Running
Game
Promotion
Game
Operation

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Gaming industry is facing…

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Easier operation and faster development with
AWS
Backend
Services
Analytics Developer
Tools

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Global gaming customers run their games on
AWS

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Development transformation at Amazon: 2001–
2002
monolithic application +
teams
2001
Lesson learned: decompose for agility
2002
microservices
+ 2 pizza teams

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Full ownership
Full accountability
“DevOps”
Focused innovation
Two-pizza teams

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What changes
have to be made
in this new
world?
Architectural patterns
Operational model
Software delivery

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Changes to the architectural patterns

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When the impact of change is small,
release velocity can increase
Monolith
Does everything
Microservices
Does one thing

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MICROSERVICE
API
API
MICROSERVICE
MICROSERVICE
EVENT
API
MICROSERVICE
EVENT
API
MICROSERVICE
APPLICATION
Mobile client
Client
IoT
PERSISTENCE PERSISTENCE
Microservices architectures

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Stockholm
Announced Regions
AWS Global Infrastructure

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AWS China Regions
• Worldwide standards: Redundancy and high availability
• Connecting with major Tier 1 carriers and small ISPs by BGP
• 2 Availability Zones (AZs) on AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet
• 3 Availability Zones (AZs) on AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD
Availability
Zone B
Availability
Zone A
Beijing Region
Availability
Zone C
Availability
Zone B
Ningxia Region
Availability
Zone A
AWS China (Ningxia)
Region operated by
NWCD launched in 2017
AWS China (Beijing)
Region operated by Sinnet
launched in 2014

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Extending the Global Footprint into China
Market

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Amazon
ElastiCache
f o r R e d i s & Me mc a c h e d
In-Memory
Amazon Neptune
Graph Time-Series
Amazon
Timestream
Ledger
Amazon
QLDB
Amazon
DynamoDB
Key Value
Amazon
DocumentDB
Document
wi t h Mo n g o D B c o mp a t i b i l i ty
The most complete family of purpose-built databases

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RELATIONAL
Amazon Aurora MySQL
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
P U R P O S E - B U I LT
Key value: Amazon DynamoDB
Document: Amazon DocumentDB
In-memory: Amazon Elasticache
Graph: Amazon Neptune
Time-series: Amazon Timestream
Ledger: Amazon QLDB
Databases
MIGRATION SERVICES
AWS Migration Hub
AWS Database Migration Service
Amazon RDS for MySQL
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS for MariaDB
Amazon RDS for Oracle
Amazon RDS for SQL Server

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Leverage Modern Databases and
Seamless Data Migration

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About Fourdesire
• Apps / Games Developer and Publisher
• Found 2012
• Worldwide Distribution (<8% users in TW)
• 4 Products on App Store / Google Play
• Walkr
• Fortune City
• Plant Nanny, Plant Nanny2
• 23,000,000 Installs
• Up to 150,000 Concurrent Users
• Over 400 Millions Data Storage

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Current AWS Architecture
• Routes53
• CloudFront
• S3
• ALB
• EC2
• RDS
• DynamoDB
• ElastiCache – Memcached
• ElastiCache – Redis
• CloudWatch

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Agenda Today
• Microservices and Modularization
• Problems
• Solutions – Structure
• Solutions – Libraries / Plugins
• Global Deployment and Data Visualization
• Cross-AWS Region
• Weak Networking Solution (Issues and Solutions)
• Database Strategy
• RDS (serverless) v.s. ElastiCache
• Future Challenges

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Microservices and Modularization
Why do we need to be modularized?

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Microservices and Modularization
Why do we need to be modularized?

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Microservices and Modularization
1 User, Multiple Players :P

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Microservices and Modularization
• Fourdesire Microservices
• Authentications Methods
• Shop and Payment Process
• Device Information and Notification
• Messaging
• Friends and Ranking
• Achievements
• Rewards
• Central Console for Operator
• GameData Warehouse
• AcitivityKit and FinanceKit

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Microservices and Modularization

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Microservices and Modularization
• Structures
• Only use what you need
• Standalone data storage
• More scalable

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Microservices and Modularization
• Case: Authentication Process

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Microservices and Modularization
• Central Servers (Microservices)
• API
• Console
• Service
• Webview
• Game Data Severs
• API
• Console::API
• ServerFunions::API

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Microservices and Modularization
• Libraries
• Server-2-Server Library
• Gem: FourdesireModuleSupport (Ruby)
• Authentication
• Devices
• Server-2-Client Library
• Unity Plugin: FourdesireUnityPlugin (C#)
• iOS Library
• Android Library
• Webview
• Entrance
• Account Management
• Validation

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Global Deployment
• Our Natural Grown User Base
US 22%
CN 16%
TW 8%
RU 7%

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Global Deployment
• AWS Deployment
• US East (N. Virginia) – America and Europe
• Asia Pacific (Tokyo) – Pan Asia
• Asia Pacific (Singapore) – The Rest

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Global Deployment
• Weak Networking Solution
• Offline Playable
• Online Social Features

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Global Deployment
• Weak Networking Solution
• DataWarehouse – For client and server data sync
• GameFunctions – For online playable content

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Data Visualization

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Data Visualization
• Business Metrics
• Metabase Solution
• TL;DR: Directly Run Metabase Elastic Beanstalk
• Metabse <> RDS
• Klipfolio
• App Store Connect
• Google Play
• Performance Metrics
• Klipfolio
• RDS
• CloudWatch
• NewRelic

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Database Strategy
• RDS Aurora (Serverless)
• Central Database
• Game Data Database
• ElastiCache (Memcached)
• Catching Data (Shop, Metadata …)
• ElastiCache (Redis)
• Slow Jobs (Push Notification, non-consistency cross sync)
• DynamoDB
• Activity Data

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Database Strategy

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Future Challenges
• Central Server Performance Bottleneck
• RDS, DynamoDB Hybrid Solutions
• Payment Data Machine Learning
• User Behavior Deep Analytics
• GameFunction, Sync* and Datawarehouses

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Thank you!
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Pahud Hsieh
Specialist Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Taco Chen
CEO & Producer
Fourdesire