Founded in 2008, Gametion is one of the fastest growing companies in the Indian Gaming Industry. It is known for creating games that reach out to a variety of different audiences; something for everyone if you will. Their games are intended to be playable by various different age groups with each finding something to their liking. Ludo King being the most successful digital board game, ranking as India’s #1 gaming app on Android globally and No.1 game on App Store India in 2020.
Gametion has published multiple games for iOS & Android under
their umbrella. Ludo King is one of their most successful game
with the multi-player feature. Gametion started experiencing
issues with managing the increase in user traffic. The major
challenge was that scaling wasn’t thought about when they
first started and hence, they could not cope with the
increased demand.
Here are the high-level challenges faced by Gametion team:
Flentas helped define and implement the overall DevOps processes, effectively and effeciently, thereby, addressing the challenges of continuous application delivery. We helped them with easy and smooth transitioning to AWS. We deep dived into the existing architecture and had to completely re-design which took us three months to implement. There was a need to release backend changes more frequently for small fixes or new features. Due to manual releases, it was difficult to manage deployments across a fleet of backend servers. Scaling at speed was made possible using the below AWS Services: