Building a Scalable, Distributed Backend for Mobile Games

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Describes how Ministry of Games built a scalable, distributed backend for high-concurrency mobile games using Elixir. Covers the system implementation in Elixir and practical details of deploying the Elixir servers to a Kubernetes cluster.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:02MOBILE GAME BACKEND
3. 6:22DEPLOYMENT OVERVIEW
4. 9:57DEPLOYMENT DETAILS
5. 12:53GAME SERVER COMPONENTS
6. 13:53CONNECTIONS
7. 17:06GAME ENTITIES
8. 25:11GLOBAL SYSTEMS
9. 26:32CLUSTERING
10. 29:12DISTRIBUTED LOCKS
11. 35:51SCALING IT UP

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