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Rovio’s Game Technology Infrastructure In The Cloud EraPaul Winston VillacortaSenior Cloud Engineer, Cloud OperationsRovio Entertainment

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Rovio uses AWS for allowing it’s 120M+ global users to play Angry Birds games and watch

Angry Birds Toons series.

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6B TOONS

VIDEO VIEWS

480M

GAME DOWNLOADSIN 2015

2,5B

YOUTUBEVIEWS

26M

FACEBOOK FOLLOWERS

3B GAME

DOWNLOADSSINCE 2009

ROVIO INNUMBERS

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200+DatabaseInstances

60+Services

700 - 2000Running

Instances

{API}

45000+API Requestsper second

3BAnalyticsProcessedevery day

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HybridCloud

Private

Cloud

PublicCloud

3rd Party ManagedPrivate Cloud

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Private Cloud Public Cloud

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Rovio’s Infrastructure is 100% cloud-native from the beginning.

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EXTERNAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

SERVICES

INTERNAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

MICROSERVICES SERVICES MICROSERVICES

DATABASE TIER

ORCHESTRATION / AUTOMATION LOGIC

CACHING COMPONENTS STORAGE

MON

ITOR

ING

LOG

COLL

ECTI

ON

INTE

RNAL

DNS

OPERATIONAL JOB SCHEDULER

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THE CLOUD

IT’S JUST SOMEONE ELSE’S COMPUTER

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Why?•Reduced Cost•Flexibility•Stability•Scalability

•Collaboration•Mobility•Security•Wecandoitlity

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AWS SERVICESPIECES OF SERVICES WE PIPED

TOGETHER

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We are heavy in …• Compute Services• Storage Services• Database Services• Networking Services• Management Services• Security Services• Analytics Services CloudFron

tGlacier

Lambda

ElastiCache RDSCloudWatch

ConfigElasticsearch

NAT Gateway

Elastic Transcoder

SES

EC2 VPC EMR

Redshift

IAM

S3

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DEPLOYMENT

WORKS PERFECTLY IN DEV

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Philosophy• Simplicity• Practicality• Cost efficiency

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Deployment Goals• Automated• Seamless• Rollback Mechanism

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Deployment GoalsAutomated

• Minimizes the deployment cycle time• Provides consistencies across environment• Time and effort are valuable• Must have for small teams

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Deployment GoalsSeamless

• Zero downtime is ambitious but we made it still ;)• A/B Switch works well for us

• It’s a bit slow but its sure and well tested• Per node replacement

• Blue/Green Deployment• Big services

• Capacity planning is needed

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Deployment GoalsRollback Mechanism

• Instant rollback• Per node or cluster wide approach

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Deployment WorkflowGITHUB

CI / BUILD

SERVER

NFS PACKAGES REPOSITOR

Y

ORCHESTRATION SERVER INSTANCE/SINSTANCE/SINSTANCE/S

INTERNAL DNS

MONITORING

LOG COLLECTION

1

TRAFFIC MANAGEMEN

TDEVELOPER / OPS2

3

4

5

5

67

8

3

5

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CHALLENGES

YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE

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Challenges• Simplifying complexity• Security• Efficiency and Performance• Bloated code base• SPOF – development / operational side• Accountability

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Approach• Re-architecting

• Some abstractions needed• Convert it to a composable software system

• Work Offloading• Use software that can do operational job like Rundeck

• Automated Tests• Never underestimate this one ;)

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Our team• Cloud operations totals 4• Platform totals about 40• “DevOps” culture• 24/7 on-call

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