Cloud-Based Active/Passive Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Riot Games Riot Games is a global gaming company with several hundred million worldwide players. Serving a gaming application for a geographically-distributed audience is a pretty unique challenge. The account management is a very typical challenge for gaming applications, and for all subscription management systems in general. It requires fast, local response times for read-traffic, a limited number of updates, and a single consolidated view of the data across the world. Watch this webinar replay by Continuent CEO Eero Teeerikorpi and find out how to Geo-Scale MySQL in AWS with Tungsten Clusters. How to build a global, multi-region MySQL cloud back-end for Player Account Management capable of serving several hundred million users. AGENDA - Continuent Introduction - How to build a global, multi-region active/passive MySQL Tungsten Cluster in AWS Cloud for Account Management - Continuent Tungsten Solutions and Benefits - Key Benefit Highlight: Geo-Scale MySQL - Q&A PRESENTER Eero Teerikorpi - founder and CEO, Continuent - is a 7-time serial entrepreneur who has more than 30 years of high-tech management and enterprise software experience. Eero has been in the MySQL marketplace virtually since day one, from the early 2000s. Eero has held top management positions at various cross-Atlantic entities (CEO at Alcom Corporation, President at Capslock, Executive Board Member at Esker S.A.) Eero started his career as a Product Manager at Apple Computer in Finland in the mid-80s. Eero also owns and manages a boutique NOET Vineyards producing high-quality dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon. Eero is a former Navy officer and still an avid sailor on San Francisco Bay and around the world. Eero is a very active sportsman: a 4+ tennis player, a rookie golfer, a very careful mountain biker, and an experienced (40+ years) skier, both slalom and cross-country.

1. The MySQL Availability Company
CONTINUENT
Geo-Scale MySQL
Guaranteed Global Game Access for Hundreds of Millions of Players Worldwide
Eero Teerikorpi, Founder and CEO
September 9, 2020
“Smooth Sailing!”

2. Continuent
“The MySQL Availability Company”

3. Riot Games Use Case – Geo-Scale MySQL
Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop,
publish, and support the most player-focused
games in the world. In 2009, Riot Games
released their debut title, League of Legends,
to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to
be the most-played PC game in the world and
a key driver of the explosive growth of
esports.
During this webinar, we’ll discuss how Riot
Games manages player accounts for
hundreds of millions of world-wide players.

4. Eero Teerikorpi
7-Time Serial Entrepreneur
In the MySQL marketplace since the
beginning (2002)
Father of Continuent Tungsten and
Godfather of Galera (XtraDB Cluster)
Galera is based on Continuent’s first (synchronous)
MySQL clustering solution Emic m/cluster
Officer
(and naturally a Gentleman) Finnish Navy
Sailor
Running a Tight Ship!
“Smooth Sailing!”

5. Where Does Continuent Fit In?
Continuent has witnessed the rise of Open
Source and Cloud Computing since 2004.
We have been at the forefront of the market
need for platform-agnostic, highly-available,
globally-scaling, clustered MySQL databases
that are driving businesses to the cloud today.
Continuent is not the biggest. Never.
We are the best at what we do. Always!
Geo-Scale
MySQL
DBaaS
Cloud
Computing
Open
Source
MySQL

6. RIOT GAMES USE CASE
Guaranteed Global Game Access for
Hundreds of Millions of Players Worldwide

7. Riot Games – Video Game Developer
• Riot Games is an American video game developer, publisher,
and esports tournament organizer based in West Los Angeles,
California.
• Riot Games was majority-acquired by Tencent in February 2011
and fully acquired in December 2015.
• Currently, Riot Games operates more than 24 offices around
the world, in which it employs over 2,500 staff members.
• Riot Games has been a Continuent customer since March 2018.
• Initial deployment consisted of one 4-region 12-node
Tungsten cluster for global Player Account Management.
• Today, 10 Riot Games applications are powered by
Tungsten Clusters using 100+ MySQL nodes in total.

8. Riot Games Challenge
High
Availability
Disaster
Recovery
CostPerformance

9. Riot Games Main Challenge
Need for High Availability and
Continuous Operations, with Fast
Local ReadsRiot Games is a global gaming company with
several hundred million worldwide players.
Serving an application for a geographically-
distributed audience is a common need.
Account management is a typical challenge
for gaming applications, and for subscription
management systems in general. They require
fast response times for read-traffic and a
limited number of updates, along with a
single consolidated view of the data across
the world.

10. Riot Games Challenge – Availability
Let’s hear from Tyler Turk of Riot
Games
In November 2018 Tyler Turk gave a very interesting
presentation at AWS Re:Invent.
Among other things, he explained why Riot Games
uses MySQL and what Continuent brought on table
to help them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJpZZm62ZKw
• 28:18 – 29:16 Why MySQL?
• 29:16 – 34:00 What Does Continuent Tungsten
Offer?

11. Riot Games Challenge – Continuous Operations
How did they achieve Continuous
Operations?
By deploying an Active-Passive Tungsten
Cluster with managed cross-site Tungsten
Replicators.
Only one cluster, US-West, is Active and
accepts Writes, in addition to local Reads.
All other clusters, US-East, EMEA-North
and APAC-North, are Passive, servicing
local Reads and acting as potential DR
cluster candidates for the main Active
cluster in US-West.
MySQL HA and DR
Active/Passive Tungsten Composite Cluster

12. Riot Games Tungsten Dashboard – Geo-Scale MySQL

13. Riot Games Tungsten Dashboard – Geo-Scale MySQL

14. Riot Games Challenge - Cost
Tungsten Clustering uses an annual
subscription model based on the number of
database nodes.
We do not charge per CPU count or instance
size.
Our pricing is non-linear: the price-per-node
drops significantly as the quantity of nodes
increases.

15. Riot Games Solution – Tungsten Clustering
The benefits Continuent customers achieve with
our Tungsten Clustering solution are:
High-availability, continuous operations, and
performance, at a very reasonable cost level.
Industry’s fastest 24/7 Support by the best MySQL
Replication and Clustering Engineering Team.
Availability
Disaster
Recovery
Scalability
Cost
24/7 Support

16. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

17. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

18. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard
• Continuous MySQL Operations
• Zero Downtime Maintenance
• Geo-distributed MySQL Clusters
• Multi-Cloud / Hybrid-Cloud MySQL
• Read/Write Splitting with Intelligent Proxy
• Full MySQL Support, No App Changes

19. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

20. Continuent Products
• High performant Real-Time replication
• Multiple Heterogeneous Targets
• AWS Aurora / RDS
• AWS Redshift
• HPE Vertica
• Hadoop
• Kafka
• and many more
• Fan-in / Fan-Out / Primary-Primary
• Flexible, Advanced Filtering
• Available as an AMI through Amazon
Marketplace (with free 14-day trial)
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

21. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

22. Tungsten Key Benefits
Industry Best 24/7 MySQL Customer Service
• Highly Qualified 24/7 support. Our support team member have 15 or more years of MySQL DBA and
Site Reliability Experience
• 24/7 support comes with 1-hour SLA, with response times for urgent requests averaging less than 3
minutes
• MySQL uptime measured in months or years
Cost Savings
• Use the free open-source MySQL for your business-critical needs
• Optimize costs by selecting the most cost-effective cloud environment(s) at any given time
• Eliminate downtime risks and their associated costs, including during maintenance operations (zero-
downtime maintenance operations)
• Reduce DBA time spent on admin and recovery operations, lowering your costs while increasing
reliability.

23. Tungsten Key Benefits
Continuous MySQL Operations
• MySQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery solution, which provides redundancy within and
across data centers
• Immediate failover for maximum availability and data protection of business-critical MySQL
applications
• Reduce MySQL recovery time from hours or days to mere seconds
• Dashboard provides graphical view and management of all globally distributed MySQL clusters
Zero Downtime MySQL
• Site-level and cross-site failover ensures application availability
• Upgrade hardware, software and data without taking applications offline
• MySQL compatibility means seamless migration of your data and applications

24. Geo-Scale MySQL
Tungsten Key Benefits
• Load-balance MySQL read operations across multiple slaves, locally and globally
• Geo-distributed MySQL clusters bring data close to your application users for faster response times
• Easily add more MySQL clusters as needed for unlimited scaling, both locally or across the globe
Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud MySQL
• Deploy in the cloud, VM and bare metal environments
• Mix-and-match on-premises, private and public clouds (incl. Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and
Microsoft Azure)
• Easy, seamless migration from cloud to cloud to avoid vendor lock-in in any specific cloud provider
• Withstand node, data center, zone or region failures or outages

25. Tungsten Key Benefits
Intelligent MySQL Proxy
• Provides intelligent traffic routing to a valid MySQL Primary, locally and globally
• Scale read queries via query inspection and other methods
• Application and active users do not disconnect during MySQL master failover events
Most Advanced MySQL Replication
• Filter and transform your data in-flight
• No more ETL, get real-time data feeds into your analytics
• Replicate directly into popular analytic repositories: AWS RedShift, Hadoop (HDFS), Kafka and Vertica
• Unlimited real-time transactional data transfer to eliminate escalating replication cost of ETL-based
alternatives

26. Tungsten Key Benefits
Full MySQL Support, No Application Changes
• Deploy and Configure MySQL clusters in minutes
• Not just a ‘MySQL-compatible” solution, but fully MySQL-compliant. Use any of your off-the-shelf
MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server versions
• Support for all modern MySQL (5.x through 8.x) and MariaDB (5.x and 10.x) versions and features
• SSL support for all in-flight traffic
• Native MySQL support means easy and complete migration of your data and applications

27. Poll Question: Are You Looking for
MySQL HA/DR?
• Yes, we're actively investigating a MySQL Availability solution
• Yes, we have a MySQL HA/DR in place, but we are not happy with
it
• No, we already have a MySQL HA/DR solution we are happy with
• Not right now, but it is in our future plans
• No, I'm here to educate myself

28. Proven Continuent Team
• Our core team has been building data availability solutions since 2004
• We have an expert team of data replication, database connectivity and database cluster management
engineers
• We have a world-class support team
• Each member with 20 or more years of operational database experience
• Our team is available to respond effectively and immediately to our customers’ needs
• Average response time for an urgent support request less than 3 minutes

29. Proven Solutions
Our tightly-integrated, complete and fully tested solutions reliably handle billions of transactions per
day and support businesses with billions of dollars in combined revenue:

30. Why Choose Continuent
Customer Satisfaction
during the most recent customer survey
Customer Renewal Rate
many multi-year subscription renewals
Average Response Time
in minutes for urgent customer support
cases
Average Customer
Life-Span
years using Continuent solutions

31. In Summary
• The MySQL Availability Company
• Established in 2004
• Customers Industries include
• SaaS
• eCommerce
• Finance
• Telco
• Online Gaming
• Business-critical MySQL apps
• From Startup to Enterprise companies
2004 Continuent Established
2009 3rd Generation Continuent Tungsten, the first
fully MySQL-compliant clustering solution
2014 VMware Acquired Continuent to build
DBaaS for vCloud Air
2016 “New” Continuent breaks away from VMware
(after they abandoned vCloud Air)
2017 Major Tungsten release (v5) with hardened
security features
2018 Tungsten v6 ships with major multi-site
clustering changes
2020 Marketo is the first 10th anniversary Tungsten
customer (grown from 4 clusters to over 100
clusters)
202x The Future….is in the Cloud – Tungsten Cloud

32. Q&A
“Smooth Sailing!”

33. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
continuent.com
The MySQL Availability Company
Eero Teerikorpi
September 9th, 2020