It’s National Video Game Day! Whether you love the thrill of high action, immersion into an alternative world, or the challenge of mastering a skill, there’s a game out there for everyone. In gaming, it’s all about a seamless user experience, but behind the game is a complex infrastructure that relies on databases to keep data flowing and applications humming. Is your database ready for game day?
As a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions, Percona supports gaming companies by optimizing their databases through their entire launch, from design and testing to implementation and scaling. Plus, at Percona, our team of open source database experts help to ensure that your applications stay agile, highly available, and performant, so you can deliver enhancements quickly.
For example, Percona partnered with Peak, a mobile gaming technology company, to maximize the effectiveness of their database environment. In addition to using Percona Server for MySQL, Peak works with Percona to get expert advice and practical assistance, which has resulted in more efficient queries, faster more stable rollouts, and lower costs.
We can help you too!
In our recent gaming webinar series, Percona Experts share their insights about the entire gaming application lifecycle and how to design and optimize your databases to boost your game performance.
Here’s what the series includes:
Available on demand:
Maximize Your Database Performance to Enhance Your Player Experience
Databases are crucial to providing the smooth gaming experience users demand. How you design your database environment before you start building applications impacts every other decision down the line. That’s why it’s so important to get it right.
In this webinar, we’ll look at database design considerations, talk through design issues that can affect performance and scalability, and offer guidance on how to avoid having to fix poor design decisions later.
Behind the Scenes: Test Your Application Performance Before Setting Your Game in Motion
Some things should not be exciting, like a plane landing or a doctor’s visit. Same goes for launching a new game or application. Prior to a release, you want to feel confident that the process will be uneventful. Design is an important piece of that but so is ensuring that all the components work well together.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss the importance of testing your components as well as the tools you need to quickly find and fix problems within complex application stacks. We’ll also talk about how to prepare for the launch, what to watch for during rollout, and how to keep your environment running smoothly post release.
Scale in and Scale Out Your Database: Five Pointers From Percona Experts for Launch Day
Disruptions, breaches, and other failures are often hard to prevent, but outright catastrophes can be avoided. Gaming companies face big challenges around adapting to traffic as it waxes and wanes over the lifetime of a game.
Tune in to hear Percona Experts provide advice on how to efficiently scale in and out of your database on launch day and beyond.
Deep Dive Into Game Analytics and Batch Data
Maintaining high application performance after your launch is critical to delighting your users and protecting your reputation for reliability. But how do you keep things running smoothly? How do you ensure that you’re not constantly in reactive mode?
In this webinar, we’ll take a deep dive into a variety of best practices that allow you to proactively uncover issues before they impact your users.
Optimize Database Efficiency and Reduce the Risk of Downtime
In this webinar, Krisztian Banhidy, DevOps engineer from Peak, offers a deep dive into the lifecycle of his company’s game launches. He shares how Peak uses automated and manual testing to vet components before launch, what his team monitors for during pre-production and production, their approach to achieving high availability, how they handle challenges around scale, and insights into common database problems.
Coming soon:
Ensure Uptime, Reliability, and High Availability for Your Database
Hear what customers have to say about their best practices for keeping gaming environments highly available. Date to be announced.
Sign up for our gaming webinar series to get your team on a path to a successful launch today!
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