How Supercell Powers its Massive Social Network with ScyllaDB

About this episode

The episode discusses how Supercell utilizes ScyllaDB Cloud to enhance its social networking features for gamers.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-supercell-powers-its-massive-social-network-with-scylladb . Supercell powers real-time cross-game chat, presence, and notifications for millions using ScyllaDB Cloud, enabling low-latency, scalable events. Check more stories related to gaming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/gaming . You can also check exclusive content about #game-server-scaling , #real-time-gaming-backend , #hierarchical-key-value-store , #low-latency-database , #supercell-id , #event-driven-architecture , #scylladb-cloud , #good-company , and more. This story was written by: @scylladb . Learn more about this writer by checking @scylladb's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Supercell scaled real-time, cross-game social features for hundreds of millions of players using ScyllaDB Cloud. With just two engineers, they built Supercell ID for account management, chat, presence, and notifications, leveraging hierarchical key-value storage, Change Data Capture, and low-latency writes to handle massive concurrent events efficiently and reliably.

People in this episode

Host: HackerNoon

Topics covered

• real-time gaming
• social network
• database technology
• game server scaling
• low-latency systems

Keywords

• Supercell
• ScyllaDB
• real-time chat
• low-latency database
• game server scaling
• event-driven architecture

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Organizations: Supercell, ScyllaDB

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