Percona
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.
High Scalability
OCTOBER 24, 2022
What it means to be cloud-native has gone through several evolutions: VM to container to serverless. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming.
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High Scalability
JULY 26, 2018
143 billion : daily words Google Translated; 73% : less face-to-face interaction in open offices; 10 billion : Uber trips; 131M : data breach by Exactis; $123 billion : Facebook value loss is 4 Twitters and 7 snapchats; $9.1B : spent on digital gaming across all platforms; 20-km : width of lake on mars; 1 billion : Google Drive users; $32.7
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 12, 2018
They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. Supercell is a mobile game developer, based in Helsinki, Finland, with over 100 million people playing their games every single day.
The Morning Paper
JANUARY 30, 2020
These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). Why would we want to live migrate web workers? The MWW manager on the client sends a query to all nearby edge servers including the input size of the worker.
Smashing Magazine
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. I recently helped a gaming website improve its performance. As a result of this, my view of the Internet for a long time was a little ephemeral, a sort of mirage.
Testsigma
MAY 19, 2021
Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. SaaS does not need you to manage hardware or other requirements such as OS and middleware. This is also called serverless computing in general.
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