ZEP’s Xpand Journey to Reduce Hidden Costs by 40%

Gaming is one of the most demanding industries that requires high performance and elasticity in a database. In the past, legacy relational databases were the easy choice. But as the gaming user base grows, challenges in scaling and sharding become apparent. In this session, Supercat shares why they chose Xpand for their open metaverse platform called ZEP and how they saved 40% in total database costs compared to Amazon Aurora.
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►Slides: https://mariadb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/OpenWorks-2023-ZEPs-Xpand-Journey-Byungkee-Hong-Kwangbok-Lee.pdf
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Table of Contents
0:52 About Supercat
4:06 ZEP Metaverse Game
5:53 Scaling to 1.6M users
9:30 Xpand and ZEP
13:45 Hidden costs of sharding
16:01 Results with Xpand
16:30 AWS Aurora vs. Xpand
20:57 Q&A

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