Massively Scaling to Millions of Players: A League of Legends Story - ETE 2012

Explore the challenges and lessons learned in scaling and operating the PvP.net Platform supporting millions of global League of Legends players daily. Delve into software architecture and design choices, as well as crucial aspects often overlooked in the race to market, including monitoring, deployment, analytics, testing, and automation. Gain insights into rapid system development, feature implementation, managing complexity and change, thread pulls, coding practices, and effective monitoring techniques. Learn from a comprehensive overview of Riot Games' company history, mission, and the impressive scale of League of Legends, concluding with a recap of key takeaways for massively scaling online gaming platforms.

Introduction
Company History
Company Mission
League of Legends
Hard Numbers
Traditional Decomposition
Agenda
How do we develop a system rapidly
How do we quickly develop features
Complexity
Change
Thread Pulls
Coding
Monitoring
Recap