How to Plan for Performance and Scale for Multiplayer Games

How to Plan for Performance and Scale for Multiplayer Games

Cloudflare
Published by: Research Desk Released: Oct 28, 2020

With the rise of esports, performance and reliability are paramount to the success of any online gaming
franchise, especially when money is on the line. When designing infrastructure for online multiplayer games, proper planning and implementation are key to ensure latency is low and availability remains high, without paying for capacity that isn’t needed in the off-hours.

In this on-demand webinar, Calvin Scherle, Solutions Engineer at Cloudflare, Inc., will take a look at several
server infrastructure strategies for various types of online multiplayer games. Learn about the pros and cons of different infrastructure implementations, and tactics to employ to maximize performance and minimize cost.
Key takeaways:

• Real-world examples of successes and failures in game server performance
• Strategies to minimize overspend on infrastructure
• Deployment strategies for different gaming use cases
• Techniques for offloading processing load from your servers