M&E Building For Scale GREE · Building for Scale When Inviting The World To Come Play! Fernando Paulo! VP of Engineering! GREE International !

Building for Scale When Inviting The World To Come Play!Fernando Paulo!VP of Engineering!GREE International !

Copyright © 2004-2012 GREE, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Confidential! Copyright © 2004-2012 GREE, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Founded �

Founder & CEO�

January 2011

Naoki Aoyagi!

Tokyo�

San Francisco�Founded �

December 7, 2004

Yoshikazu Tanaka

CEO�

International

Co-Brand

Co-Brand

May 2012!Acquired Funzio�

GREE Overview!

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We Make Games!


San Francisco

London

Tokyo Beijing

Singapore

Amsterdam

São Paulo

Seoul

Dubai Osaka

Vancouver

We Are Global!


And a Mobile Platform!


San Francisco

London

Tokyo Beijing

Singapore

Amsterdam

São Paulo

Seoul

Dubai Osaka

Vancouver

GREE Overview!


2005! 2007! 2009! 2011! 2013!

（Millions）

500

600

400

200

300

100

SP!PC!

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Sources: Morgan Stanley「Mobile Internet Trend」

Global PC and Smartphone Shipments �

Industry Trends: Mobile!


Sources: Morgan Stanley「Mobile Internet Trend」

Trend of Global Time Spent Online �

2007 ! 2008 ! 2009 !

10

15（%）

5

Social Media

Portal Media

2010!

Industry Trends: Social!


Platforms Bring Agility To Social Games!


User Acquisition, Retention, Engagement!

!App Discoverability!

Viral Features!Communication Tools!

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Monetization Mechanics!!!

Virtual Goods Management!Cross Promotion!

Advertising!Player Analytics!

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Scalable APIs!

Platforms and Game Profitability!


More Platform Features!


Platforms and Game Profitability!

SNS or Social PlaBorm

Game Economics

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Time Value (LTV)!

Revenue Per User! ,!

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Technology Ecosystem!

Social Games!(GREE)!

Social Games!(3rd-Party)!

GREE Platform!

Analytics!

Scalable Infrastructure!


Social Games Demand Scalability!


All backend services must be !designed to scale!

Design Principle #1!


(Shocker)!

All backend services must be !designed to scale!



Game Backend(*)

(*) The term “backend” here denotes all server-‐side dependencies of the game. Game and plaAorm services, asset repositories.

High availability Low server latency

Response Times Goal: <500ms

Great Game Play Requires Performance!


Optimizing end-to-end network performance directly increases

game profitability!



Thanks!!

Optimizing end-to-end network performance directly increases

game profitability!



Lessons Learned!(sometimes the hard way)!


Stay close to the player’s carrier network for great play experience

Reduce computing costs. Pre-process and cache for exceptional

performance

Design to handle 10x growth by only needing additional commodity hardware

Monitor costs closely and track game profitability

Lessons Learned!


Case: Scaling GREE Avatar!

Users pay for new styles!

Dynamically generated!

Heavy-traffic page!


Case: Scaling GREE Avatar!

Issues:!•  CPU-intensive!•  Serving costs!•  Content protection!


Edge Caching!

GREE Avatar: How Akamai Helped!

Short-lived URLs!


Lower computing costs!

GREE Avatar: How Akamai Helped!


Case: Global Coverage and Performance!

End-user Performance:!DNS lookup + !

Service Response Time +!Client-side Rendering Time!

Global Platform! Many geographies!

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Global Performance: How Akamai Helped!

AkaDNS returns closest DNS server!

Carrier network proximity!


Game Profitability: How Akamai Helped!

Control Center Reporting!


Where Gaming is Going!

High-production titles!

Native and HTML5!

Multiplayer!

Tablets!

Real-Time Analytics!


Thank you!!Any questions?!

[email protected]!

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M&E Building For Scale GREE · Building for Scale When Inviting The World To Come Play! Fernando Paulo! VP of Engineering! GREE International !